N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Fruit used to flavor the liqueur patxaran
5 Culture
medium
9 Fertile
soils
14 Element next to iron on the periodic table
16 Trifling
amount 17 Threat that’s hard to take seriously
19 “Gracious!,”
informally 20 “___ has poor memory”: Gabriel García Márquez
21 Lead-in to
night or day 22 Things sometimes named after queens 23 Invigorating 24 Fictional operator of the Discovery One spaceship 25 Put on the
line, say
26 Psychoanalyst Fromm
27 Chap
29 The end of
time?
31 When
repeated, name in 1968 news 32 Response
from Siri
35 Charlotte ___, capital of the U.S. Virgin Islands
36 Trifling
amounts
37 So-called “Father of the Italian Language” 38 Most highly
prized collectible coins
39 Poster
impostor? 42 Trig function 43 Dice, for
instance
44 Source of
ruin
45 Something you might throw in frustration 46 Foil alternative, in Fulham
47 Lisa of “A Different World”
48 “Well, aren’t you so darn special!”
51 Completely
bought
52 Juice bar
ingredient 53 Fathers,
abroad
54 1970s-’80s sitcom station
55 Sylvia of jazz
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2 1 Old Hollywood Got a photo, ready say for actress in AustriaHungary born 3 Title rock lyric before “I’m gonna find ya / I’m gonna get ya, get ya, get ya, get ya” 4 “Heavens to Murgatroyd!”
5 Alex ___ chain) (jewelry and
6 Hits the
jackpot, say 7 Exceedingly
obtuse
8 Go over
9 & 10 Miss
the boat
11 Branch of agriculture pertinent to dairy farmers and cattle ranchers
12 Longtime N.B.A. head coach Nate 13 ___ money 15 Partner
of all
18 Pain to a pediatrician?
23 Director
Cameron
24 Judean king 26 Woman’s name that becomes a different woman’s name when its third and fourth letters are switched
27 Marching band instruments 28 What “n”
might mean 30 Foes of the
Romans
31 Fathers
32 “I was ___!” 33 Starve
34 Like a large garage or small pileup 38 Badly chafe 40 Feature of Herman on “The Simpsons” 41 Moon of
Saturn
43 Half-___
(latte order) 44 Stirrups,
e.g.
45 Kerfuffle
46 Tries, in a
way
47 Lobster
catcher?
49 Just
deserts
50 Currency of
Laos