NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD

No. 1231

ACROSS

1 NBA stat 4 Number of stripes on la bandera mexicana 8 Relay, e.g.

13 Oscar-winning actor for “Moonlight” and “Green Book”

14 Chew (out)

15 Actress Clarke of “Game of Thrones”

16 Rapper MC ___

17 Plant that lacks true roots and leaves

18 Be surpassed by

19 Broker’s request for funds 21 Averts, with “off”

22 Product with the slogan “Trust the power within” 24 James Merritt ___, pioneer in American lithography

25 Modest

26 Digital currency

28 Foot with a short part and a long part

29 Places to crash

30 Layer

31 Goes downhill

33 Game that’s 100% luck

36 ___-vivre (ability to live elegantly)

37 Modern knowit-all

38 Epic collapse 39 Literally, “way of the gods”

41 Capital of Italy’s Apulia region

42 Sums set aside, say

44 One of 64 divisions of Louisiana

46 Highlighter of tihs clue?

48 Certain tailored suit

49 Capital of Fiji 50 Not-so-great grade

51 Put together, as assets 52 Send off

53 Like Haydn’s Symphony No. 12

54 Squirming, maybe

55 Goes out with 56 Something to take or hang

DOWN

1 Chicken ___ (certain entree, informally)

2 District attorney’s offering, maybe

3 Game with sets and runs

4 Diner or sleeper

5 Adjust, as skates

6 Two under

7 Local economy makeup ... or a hint to this puzzle’s theme

8 Faces of the digital age?

9 In relation to

10 Big roll

11 Informal times, in ads

12 New Mexico’s ___ Ski Valley

15 Legal limits? 20 Chow

23 Quantity equal to about seven glasses of wine 25 Minor market move

27 Shipload

29 :-(

31 Winner of a record

26 Oscars

32 Ab ___ (from the start)

33 Went forward without a plan

34 Manhattan’s SoHo has a noted one

35 Where swimmer Katie Ledecky won four Olympic golds

36 “Flash Gordon” and others

37 Pine (for)

38 Woodchuck of the western U.S.

39 A one-hit Wonder he’s not

40 Violently temperamental sorts

41 Titan of industry

43 Froth

44 Old man

45 Shrouded

47 Razor-sharp

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