NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Fruit used to flavor the liqueur patxaran
5 Culture medium
9 Fertile soils
14 Element next to iron on the periodic table
16 Trifling amount
17 Threat that’s hard to take seriously
19 “Gracious!,” informally
20 “___ has poor memory”: Gabriel García Márquez
21 Lead-in to night or day
22 Things sometimes named after queens
23 Invigorating
24 Fictional operator of the Discovery One spaceship
25 Put on the line, say
26 Psychoanalyst Fromm
27 Chap
29 The end of time? 31 When repeated, name in 1968 news
32 Response from Siri
35 Charlotte ___, capital of the U.S. Virgin Islands
36 Trifling amounts
37 So-called “Father of the Italian Language”
38 Most highly prized collectible coins
39 Poster impostor?
42 Trig function
43 Dice, for instance
44 Source of ruin
45 Something you might throw in frustration
46 Foil alternative, in Fulham
47 Lisa of “A Different World”
48 “Well, aren’t you so darn special!”
51 Completely bought
52 Juice bar ingredient
53 Fathers, abroad
54 1970s-’80s sitcom station
55 Sylvia of jazz
DOWN
1 Got ready for a photo, say
2 Old Hollywood actress born in Austria-Hungary
3 Title rock lyric before “I’m gonna find ya / I’m gonna get ya, get ya, get ya, get ya”
4 “Heavens to Murgatroyd!”
5 Alex and ___ (jewelry chain)
6 Hits the jackpot, say
7 Exceedingly obtuse
8 Go over
9 & 10 Miss the boat
11 Branch of agriculture pertinent to dairy farmers and cattle ranchers
12 Longtime NBA head coach Nate
13 ___ money 15 Partner of all
18 Pain to a pediatrician?
23 Director Cameron
24 Judean king
26 Woman’s name that becomes a different woman’s name when its third and fourth letters are switched
27 Marching band instruments
28 What “n” might mean
30 Foes of the Romans
31 Fathers
32 “I was ___!”
33 Starve
34 Like a large garage or small pileup
38 Badly chafe
40 Feature of Herman on “The Simpsons”
41 Moon of Saturn
43 Half-___ (latte order)
44 Stirrups, e.g.
45 Kerfuffle
46 Tries, in a way
47 Lobster catcher?
49 Just deserts
50 Currency of Laos