NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Cable news lineup
6 Only character with the same name in both “Rent” and “La Bohème”
10 Some urgent messages, in brief
14 Dramatic device
15 What’s before after, at the end?
16 Kaplan course subj.
17 “That’s enough for now”
19 Singular
20 Most promising slate of candidates
21 Decision spot
22 Dark half
23 Sexy
24 One who might have a brush with fame?
26 Jobs at Apple, once
27 Prom night worry
29 Puzzle solver’s cry
30 Legal pad alternative
33 Lightly lined apparel
34 Batting equipment?
35 Cost-of-living fig.
36 Array on a screen
37 The season opener?
38 Author who was a childhood friend of Harper Lee 40 Filch
41 Melissa Jefferson ___ Lizzo
44 Spots for bulbs 45 Celebrity’s influence
48 Overhaul
49 Goes in 100%
50 Single piece of underwear, paradoxically
51 Highland slope
52 Background distraction
53 Some are traditional, in brief
54 Steel (oneself)
55 Mount
DOWN
1 Mark 2 Japanese beer brand
3 Camera mentioned in Paul Simon’s “Kodachrome” (not a Kodak!)
4 River of Germany
5 Upgrade at a dealership
6 Warrant
7 Singer/actor who narrated 1964’s “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”
8 Gist
9 Put out
10 Divvy up
11 Autoimmune condition with itchy skin
12 Use of a cushion or a backboard
13 Anne or Jeanne: Abbr.
18 B+ or A21 E-tail perk
24 Tree toppers
25 Pine product
26 Pine product
27 Pieces of pomegranate
28 Nightclub of song, familiarly 30 Resource with content in 300+ languages
31 ___ school
32 Seeks judgment, in a way
33 Fairy tale patriarch
34 Grp. that watches TV
39 Some may linger
40 Encrusted
41 Be in store
42 Ashton Kutcher’s role on “That ’70s Show”
43 Longtime senator Specter
45 Who asks “What can I help you with?”
46 Former Bulgarian monarch
47 Omaha relative
48 Tech sch. in upstate N.Y.
49 Initials of the person who said “Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you”