new york times crossword

ACROSS

1 Unfamiliar and unsettling 6 Muslim V.I.P. 13 Ones sticking around a desert? 14 Like the Trix rabbit 16 Word on many campaign stickers 17 Press orders 19 “Stop! Turn your papers over” 20 Some bread loaves 21 With 29-Down, what someone who’s a natural has 22 Award for mystery writers 24 Classic clown name 25 Singer with the 2007 autobiography “Out of Sync” 29 Wreck 30 Pac-Man was its “Man of the Year” in 1982 32 It counts down to disaster 35 Perform a disco dance 36 Early conqueror of Valencia 37 Ancient land of Sidon and Tyre 42 “Oh, by the way …” 43 1960s TV unit 44 Parking space 45 Places for aces or cases 50 Let it all out 51 Place to watch a game 53 Expression of grief 54 Literary stigma 55 Bone that’s better known as the anvil 56 “Star Wars” villain 57 Force for change

DOWN

1 Perfumery compound 2 Spanish pro soccer association 3 Hired gun, in underworld lingo 4 “You get the point” 5 Critic’s pick? 6 River running “down to a sunless sea,” in “Kubla Khan” 7 Carnage 8 Polynesian capital 9 Surname at the Daily Planet 10 “___ off to you!” 11 Pirate’s exclamation 12 Overly anxious 15 Modern sort of “Noah’s Ark” 18 Very muscular, in slang 20 Border river in the Midwest 23 Spoke with hesitation 24 Classic clown name 26 Make sense 27 Flop’s opposite 28 Tell

29 See 21-Across 31 Symbols near key signatures 32 Large spoonfuls 33 Investor’s purchase outside an exchange, informally 34 Where I-70 meets I-75 35 Negotiates 38 John who wrote “The Cider House Rules” 39 Pressure 40 Futuristic weapon 41 Source of springtime stress for a H.S. student 45 Part of many common shortcuts 46 World capital with a nearly car-free city center 47 Commercial lead-in to X 48 Figure on a utility bill 49 Second-most common family name in Vietnam, after Nguyen 52 Certain stinger 53 One of 30 in junio