N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Clear, as the deck
5 Nuts (over)
9 Some office workers on “Mad Men”
11 Greek god of the winds
13 Literary profile
16 Speed
17 Links things?
18 Romance novelist Roberts
19 Woman’s name that means “life”
20 Vitamin supplement brand
22 Bud
23 It forms at the mouth
25 Majors in acting
26 Not be stuck in one’s ways
28 Close ones
31 Be a bad winner
32 Home where the heart is?
33 Pinball player’s undoing
36 Is blessed with
37 Flood
38 Title locale for a Hemingway novel, with “the”
40 Tide competitor
41 Sews up
42 Strain
43 Woman’s name in English that’s a man’s name in Catalan
45 What a “R-rr-ring!” in the kitchen signifies
46 Slips, e.g.
54 Person with no one to play with
55 Names
DOWN
1 Worker in Albany or Sacramento, say
2 “Now ___ talking!”
3 Tokyo-based carrier
4 Game played on a 90-footlong court
5 Painter’s mixture
6 “Peachy!”
7 A stream might run through it
8 Hose and belt sellers
9 Bald-faced
10 Joey Dee’s backup group in 1960s pop, with “the”
11 One who might grade on the curve?
12 Rows
13 Street ___
14 Western New York natives
15 Discontinue
20 Choke
21 Faint prints, in detective work
24 Like Wookiees
27 Member of the South Asian diaspora
29 One of the Wayans brothers
30 Classic western hero who says “A man has to be what he is, Joey. Can’t break the mold”
33 Nails for kites
34 Word on a French wine bottle
35 Like bad, bad Leroy Brown vis-à-vis a junkyard dog, in song
36 Mideast traveler, of a sort
39 Double or triple feat in the Olympics
44 View from Memphis
45 “Nuts!”
47 Challenge for a barber
48 “The Problem With ___” (2017 documentary)
49 Annual three-day celebration
50 Tide competitor
51 In the back
52 Luau offering
53 Backing