N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

Across 1 Rock 9 Big releases of the ’50s 15 Cobbler waste 16 Yale, to the “ten thousand men of Harvard” 17 Skating, as a hockey team 18 Maxim, e.g. 19 “Star Wars” army member 20 Nixon adviser Nofziger 21 “Now I get it!” 22 World 24 Parlous 26 “Are you satisfied now?” 27 Sweetie 31 Possessive on a Chinese menu 32 Relationship with unrequited love, in modern slang 33 Classic record label 34 Some kitchen pads 35 Jazz’s Beiderbecke 36 Stammering 38 Cornel who wrote “Race Matters” 39 Tot 40 Shade of black 41 Thrown (over) 42 Put in bundles for the bookbinder 43 Specialty, informally 46 Characters of average width 47 Musclebound 48 Defensive comeback 50 Works of childlike simplicity 53 Musician Mendes known for the bossa nova 54 Camp dweller 55 Irish runner Coghlan 56 Principal means of address?

Down 1 Mail ctr. 2 “Good-___, good fellow” (greeting from Romeo) 3 Situation in which one person might have the advantage 4 Lugs 5 Practice’s counterpart 6 Speak out 7 See 8-Down 8 When 7-Down gets hot 9 Highest authority in some Eastern churches 10 They may get burned 11 Miscellaneous 12 Office paper 13 Unexciting 14 [Not that again] 20 One who’s disparaged 22 “Fiddler on the Roof” setting 23 “Not me”: Fr. 24 What’s up for grabs? 25 1960s-’80s Bosox legend 27 Ones symbolized by John Bull 28 Basketball’s Black Mamba 29 Maroon 30 Sent pixxx? 32 Cohabitation without marriage 34 Television interruption 37 Some high-speed cars 38 Original band that sang “I Shot the Sheriff,” with “the” 40 “___ says …” 42 What you might call it 43 Plinth, for a pillar 44 Precinct 45 It can make you sick 47 Eric of “Munich” 49 CARE, e.g., for short 50 Beat by a hair 51 Food writer Drummond 52 Pro ___