NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Like much White House press
8 Stick with
14 Social elites
16 Susan who wrote “The Orchid Thief”
17 Line of
Pokémon
19 Actor James of “The Fresh Prince of Belair”
20 ___ Who Code
(nonprofit)
21 Forerunner of
rocksteady
22 Bad thing to
miss
23 Native Costa Ricans, informally
24 Something that might be raised in a fight
25 Amount to
26 Locales for the Jets and the Sharks
27 Like wicker
chairs
28 Daisy Dukes,
e.g.
30 Draft status?
31 Excessive coverage, perhaps
32 Mounted
33 Daylight saving time adjustment: Abbr.
34 You might have one on the side
37 Roaster
38 Sound of the
West Coast 39 What stamens
are, in botany
40 Word with change or color
41 Unmasked,
say
42 Swears at
43 Travel around
the world
46 Stuck in the Middle Ages?
47 Summer
cooler
48 Early Macedonian capital
49 Divinity
DOWN
1 Famed Portuguese explorer
2 Good luck with that! 3 “Oh, get outta
here!”
4 Lead-in to
physical
5 Suspension of
a sort
6 Onetime trade
org.
7 Sue
8 Target
alternative
9 “De dónde ___?” (Spanish 101 query)
10 ___ borer
(beetle)
11 Russian Revolution figures
12 Silent counterparts, once
13 Where cruise passengers end up 15 Propensity for
pilfering
18 Practice that yields mixed results?
23 New York county near Pennsylvania
24 Big name in
crackers
26 1998 Robert De Niro crime thriller
27 The heart of
Paris
28 Try to win, in a
way
29 Author/ screenwriter Ben
30 “Drink marvelously” sloganeer
31 Trailer
32 Look up, in a
way 34 Something a 38-Down likes to eat
35 Current weather concern?
36 Tried-andtrue
38 An adult one can spend up to 16 hours a day eating
39 Footslog
41 Contests in which the competitors are eliminated one by one
42 Pulitzer winner Maureen
44 Syringe amts.
45 Soft-spoken
words