NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Company that acquired Skype in 2005

5 Help out with Thanksgiving dinner, in a way

10 ___ bowling 14 OK

15 Pirouetting,

say

16 Head light? 17 Act casual

19 The Solomon’s lily’s smell of rotting fruit, to flies

20 “The other one!” 21 Hayride seat 22 Today preceder 23 What aspirin can

prevent 24 Posture that might be hard to maintain

26 Boo 27 Manhattan

purveyor

28 Load

29 “Hold up ...” 33 “Don’t move!” 34 Make dough

from scratch? 35 “So what?” 36 One-eighty 37 Didn’t stay put, as mascara

38 What an investor hopes for

40 Necklace

bit

42 ___ flash 45 Stable youth? 46 Orchestrated

performances? 48 It’s shortest at the equator 49 Buzzes while

buzzed? 50 Sclera

neighbor 51 Where it’s at 52 “Folded,” in

French 53 Comes

together 54 Updated, as a

kitchen 55 Sizes up

DOWN

1 College athletics

channel

2 Ties for vaqueros 3 Pigeon pose, for

one

4 Opposite of flatline 5 Dark hue named after a type of glassware

6 Dried chili 7 Weaselly animal 8 [Go! The light

turned!]

9 Unadon

ingredient 10 Mauve relative 11 Excessively

admiring

12 “That’s all.

Goodbye”

13 When repeated, a 2010s dance move

18 “Might as well try” 21 Uncapped? 24 Accelerated, in a

way

25 Destination 26 Angler’s supply 27 Currency whose symbol is a B with a vertical line through it 29 Item often seen in home bathrooms, but rarely in public ones 30 Sebaceous 31 Many a promoter of human rights or voting rights, for short

32 Large Hadron

Collider org. 33 Place to store

some barrels 34 Word with

horse or hero 39 They parallel

radiuses

40 In book form 41 World-weary

feeling

42 Where the piano was invented

43 “For real!” 44 Jacks are male

ones

46 Native

Canadian

47 Red, maybe 48 Vibed with 49 Feature of some

TVs, for short