NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
PUZZLE by Natan last
ACROSS
1 Paid off
7 Pinky swear, e.g.
11 Pause in the middle of a line of poetry
12 Creature also known as a greenfly
14 Substitute for coffee
17 Baptisms by fire
18 Palmed, say
19 Prefix with consciousness
20 Last word of the first sentence of Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis”
21 Pick
22 “Don’t Look Up” star, in tabloids
23 Parts of baseballs and mines
24 Country with two official languages — Guaraní and Spanish
26 Move from side to side, as a ship
27 2000 Sisqó hit with a rhyming title
29 1924 tale of derring-do
30 New Jersey’s “unofficial rock theme of our State’s youth”
31 Something picked up by a silent butler
34 Minions
35 Basic technique in skateboarding
37 Nitwit, to a Brit
38 “What do you want me to do about it?”
39 Be plucky?
40 Hollywood, with “the”
41 Astronaut Jemison
42 Didn’t cause trouble
43 “Golly!”
46 It might work on a block
47 They might work on a block
48 Floor
49 Europe’s oldest capital
DOWN
1 Lumbering tool
2 Turn in
3 Musician who helped save Carnegie Hall from demolition
4 Put up
5 Muffs
6 “Against the ___” (Thomas Pynchon novel)
7 On equal footing, in Latin
8 Mirrored
9 Tea, in Mandarin
10 Result of a poor audio connection, perhaps
11 Part of the body first successfully transplanted in 1905
13 Exponential ___ (function in physics)
14 Like many street-level apartments
15 Juice boxes?
16 Rumpus
21 Danced to the music of Carlos Acuña, say
22 “We / Jazz ___” (line in Gwendolyn Brooks’s “We Real Cool”)
24 Popular dishes in Québécois cuisine
25 Went round and round in circles
28 Record holder for the most M.L.B. All-star selections
29 Spell
30 Attire at some academies
31 Exams for British 18-year-olds
32 Jewelry store tools
33 Minds
34 Mentally worn out
36 Mount with facility
37 Vegan sandwich, for short
39 Enforcement mechanisms, metaphorically
41 Where to pick sides?
42 Handful, say
44 Overly rehearsed
45 Occupation of Leo Bloom in “The Producers,” for short