NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Something you might write on 5 Perhaps

8 Cutoff point

11 God is one in a 2018 Ariana Grande hit 13 Some rings on a plate

15 Result of tails, perhaps

16 Soldier Doll, Mouse King and Sugar

Plum Fairy, in “The Nutcracker”

17 Name synonymous with longevity 19 Handled well

20 Beloved pop

22 Words on a jacket

23 Mythical race

24 Beckham of the N.F.L.

26 Edit, e.g.

27 Google search strings useful to linguists

and literary historians

28 Philadelphia art museum, with “the” 30 Sources of some beams

31 Like a raccoon’s tail

32 Onetime Edison protégé

33 Blast of the past, in brief

34 Curling iron’s functional opposite 36 Curveball stat, for short

37 Initiate post production?

40 One might be a pop-up

42 Like a bajillion dollars

44 Brightness or darkness, in musical

terms

46 Gets in line

47 Oscar Wilde’s “Salome,” e.g.

48 Deja view?

49 World Wide ___, nickname of an N.B.A.

power broker

50 Short

51 Viscous

DOWN

1 Get in the ___

2 Propelled oneself on skis

3 Wasn’t stoic

4 Some prizes

5 Putting greens in these courses

might be expected

6 Kind of shirt

7 Piehole

8 Funshine or Love-a-lot, in

toondom

9 Small pictures, perhaps

10 Some race starters

12 Deep-learning tech

13 Farther away, in a sense

14 Very, informally

16 “That men may rise on steppingstones / Of their dead ___ to higher things”: Tennyson

18 In order

21 Byproduct of kissing a pet, maybe 25 “Someone to comfort and hold me,” in a

#1 Mariah Carey hit

27 Its participants are always tired 28 Emergency device in DC

29 Buttercup relatives

30 Printer setting

31 California city in the Mojave Desert 32 Inactivity

34 Actress Atwell

35 Slow dance

38 God with the head of an ibis

39 Arouse

41 ___ jacket

43 Supergroup at Woodstock,

familiarly

45 E.R. units