THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 What a physiognomist studies 6 Palma's island

13 Christopher Paolini best seller

15 Hope was once its driving force 16 Sluggishness

18 Act

19 “Well done!”

21 Something with “three deuces and a four- speed” in a 1964 hit

22 30, on a table

23 God

24 Golfer Mickelson

25 Dryish

27 ___ facie ( legal phrase)

28 Former Ecuadorean “dollars” 29 London or Manchester

30 Chicken characteristic

31 Charles of “Hill Street Blues”

32 ___ stick

35 Measure of data transfer speed, for short

37 With nothing on top

38 Touchy subject

40 Successor to Churchill 41 Noted blind mathematician

42 Noted boxing family

44 Blackguard

45 Alliance of groups against a common enemy

47 Measures of sharpness

49 One- named singer with the 2016 # 1 album “A Seat at the Table”

50 Parts of pit crews

51 Throw a bomb

52 “You don’t have to explain”

53 Like an eisteddfod festival

DOWN

1 Hernando’s “happy”

2 A Musketeer

3 Foxes, e. g.

4 Croissan’wich alternative 5 Make more powerful, with “up” 6 Rumpled

7 Bloom that’s often white or lavender

8 1940 Fonda role

9 N. H. L. Eastern Conference team, on scoreboards

10 Camp out in the wilderness, say

11 2/ 2, in music

12 Pertaining to colored rings 14 Field work

17 Parent, e. g.

20 Does some runs

24 Annual June celebration

26 Strand during a storm, maybe

27 Stuck- up sort 29 Newfoundland or golden retriever

31 Staff additions

32 Spell out

33 Nickname for baseball’s Orlando Hernández

34 Shakespearean fencer 35 Leave in a hurry

36 Fast- food icon, with “the” 38 Neighbor of Allemagne 39 Hints

41 ___- deux

43 Curry of the N. B. A.

45 A smartphone has lots of them

46 Go smoothly

48 Country music’s Mike ___