NEW YORK TIMES
ACROSS
1 Formal affirmative
8 Home of the prehistoric Ggantija temples
13 Absolute drivel
15 Longtime TV news colleague of Pelley,
Cooper and Whitaker
16 Queso, e.g.
18 Prestigious award established after its founder purportedly read his premature obituary
19 One in a
hundred
20 Whoops, e.g.
22 Whence the
phoenix
23 Queer identity whose flag is green, white, gray and black, for short
24 Wrote an
exposé, say
26 Unreliable news
source
27 It has high-end
tastes
29 Isn't finalized
30 One of more than 300 for “S.N.L.”
31 “Sonnets to
Orpheus” poet
32 Predispositions 33 Something
unoriginal
35 Drain away
36 Had to recant
38 Sign of a sellout 39 What you might
get at the gym
40 Network for
15-Across
43 “Dear ___”
45 Singer Marie
46 Singer Michaels 47 For real
49 Stealing from the collection plate, for example 51 Outmaneuver,
in a way
52 Covered in ink
53 Fleming who was the first opera singer to perform the national anthem at the Super Bowl (2014)
54 They resemble
boas
DOWN
1 State flower of
New Mexico
2 Early number?
3 Device used by a court reporter, informally
4 Word with swim or
swap
5 ___ nova
6 Question asked outside a bedroom
7 Tin lizzies
8 Competitor of AOL 9 On
10 Windy location
of myth?
11 Defunct health technology company that once had a $10 billion valuation
12 So-called
14 Baño feature
17 Identify
21 Occasion when one might choose truth
24 Swimsuit portmanteau
25 Greenish drink
27 “Is anybody home
…?”
28 Matches, as
watches
29 Instrument that includes ranks and divisions
31 Get back
33 One who grapples,
in dialect
34 Tuchuses
35 Borrower's
limit
37 Major export of
Ukraine
40 Liturgical chant 41 Kicked off
42 Flight components
44 Team
46 “Ugh!”
48 Beethoven's
fourth?
50 Ignatius ___, figure on
Netflix's “Wednesday”