NEW YORK TIMES
ACROSS
1 Road movie producer?
8 Brokerage famous for its “spokesbaby”
14 It’ll give you a break 16 Movie villain modeled after Ernst Stavro Blofeld
17 “Nailed it!”
18 Home of the Red Cross
19 Overplay a part
20 Fields of energy
22 –1, for sine:
Abbr.
23 Small drinks 24 Unwelcome kind of message
25 Terse refusal
26 “Was ist ___?”
27 Where Manila is
28 Apple apparatus
29 Unit of brilliance?
30 Aussie girl
31 Out for a week or two, say
34 Tie-ups
35 Flight attendants point them out 36 Mañana preceder
37 Hat features
38 Natl. Women’s History Month
41 Really long
42 Sweet, in scores
43 Story with many parts 44 Mars, but not Earth 45 Long-distance call? 46 Seltzer, e.g.
47 With 9-Down, Spanish leaders?
49 Like “Roma,” to Romans
51 It can dirty your Windows
52 Rears
53 Fulminated
54 “Easy peasy”
DOWN
1 Count (on)
2 Lack of oomph
3 Razor sharpeners
4 Weighs, in a way 5 Manitoba tribe
6 Lab grp.
7 Famous introduction that was never actually used
8 Mystery prize
9 See 47-Across
10 “Star Wars” villain Kylo ___
11 Mass number
12 From on high
13 Korean compact
15 Not right, sarcastically 21 Ginny’s brother, in the Harry Potter books 24 They may have images of
Mozart and Cervantes 25 Some University of Virginia undergrads in 1969, for the first time 27 1972 top 10 hit that ran for 7+ minutes 28 Markers
29 Garçon’s offering
30 Snail trail
31 Rain forest menace 32 Chase with a drink 33 Household brand famous for its infomercials 34 Austin Powers’s car with a portmanteau name
37 Dad ___
38 Rep. Waters of California
39 Set of priorities
40 Like AB negative among blood types 42 Treated, in a way
43 Might
45 Time long ago
46 Units of wire thickness
48 “Who ___?”
50 Italian possessive