N.Y. Times Crossword Puzzle

Across

1 School for Rory Gilmore of “Gilmore Girls” 5 Item that became trilingual in the late ’90s 15 Slavering toon 16 Captain 17 Salty drink? 18 She was “the answer to a prayer” in a 1941 #1 Jimmy Dorsey hit 19 1983 hit for Rufus and Chaka Khan 21 French pronoun 22 Pitch successfully 23 Like salsa 25 Ingredient in a Baltimore Bracer 26 Pros at settling disputes 27 Auto option patented by 3M 28 Cast mate? 30 Italian term of address: Abbr. 31 Leaves out in the open? 33 “No ___!” 36 Shower component 37 Apparent flaw 38 Confessed statements 41 “Wake Up on the Bright Side” sloganeer 44 Louses 45 Medical term for lead poisoning 46 “___ word?” 47 Pool cover 48 Film animation technique 51 Drug smuggler 52 Governor who was the father of another governor 53 Yank with 25 grand slams 54 Polysomnogram finding 55 Bird with a resonant “ha-wah” call

Down

1 Balance sheets? 2 Ninth-century pope who was married with a daughter 3 Simba sobriquet 4 A migraine sufferer might have one 5 Level best 6 Aeschylus’ play “The Persians” is about one 7 Crossing state lines, perhaps 8 HC(O)NH2, for one 9 Kill 10 Grasp 11 Companion 12 “Swan Lake” heroine 13 “Claude Monet Painting in His Garden at Argenteuil,” e.g. 14 Drills 20 Scottish refusal 23 Magazine that published Harry Truman’s memoirs 24 Kill 26 Worthless amount 29 2005-07 sitcom about the Gold family, with “The” 31 RICO enforcers 32 They may end with golden goals, for short 33 Job for which you give someone a hand 34 Exhibition locale 35 Rush 36 Former Florida

senator Martinez 37 Support for a pilot 38 Gulfs 39 Zipcar alternative 40 Kid-lit character who says “The nicest thing about the rain is that it always stops. Eventually” 42 Trendy

pseudocereal 43 Cinerary item 45 Suddenly took

notice 47 Locale of the Evert Tennis Academy, familiarly 49 Word that follows pot but precedes pan 50 Clean (up)