THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Game players?

9 Bob of “Home Again”

13 Domineered

14 Genesis patriarch

15 Grammywinning group whose name is an homage to the Monkees

16 ___ Reader’s Encyclopedia (classic literary reference)

17 Squad on a slope

18 Best man for a wedding?

19 Sixth of five?

20 Nickname for Adrianus

22 Courtroom outburst

23 In-house service?

26 ___ Croft, comic book heroine

27 Perform extremely well, in sports lingo

29 Hawaiian pizza topping

32 Greta of “The Player”

33 Rattle holder

34 Ironic exclamation of amazement

37 A scarf might cover it

38 Annual awards show since

1993

40 “Shoot!”

41 First name in design

42 Lotion abbr.

44 Roman magistrate’s attendants

46 Cowboys or Vikings

50 New York city west of Binghamton

51 Cubic ___ (synthetic gemstone)

52 Something that’s secretive

53 “This is too much!”

54 Single, say

55 Tumults

DOWN

1 Collectible caps

2 Call up

3 Pass on

4 Genre for Oasis and Blur

5 Practiced

6 French Quarter city, familiarly

7 Ones who help people get their acts together?

8 States, informally

9 Music’s Milli ___

10 Uranus or Neptune

11 Don Juan

12 Part of a science journal

14 “Seinfeld” nickname

16 Part of an equestrian’s outfit

18 Sports Illustrated named it #1 in its “100 Greatest Moments in Sports History”

21 Stock owner

24 Deliberate

25 “The list goes on”

28 Oratory obstacle

29 Horses kick with them

30 Texas city on Route 66

31 1980s arcade game

35 Kind of zoo

36 Cardiac contraction

39 Whiles away

43 Barely registering

45 Onetime California fort

47 Judging by

48 Medium bra spec

49 Some gym gear

51 Face difficulty?