The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Hospital attachment 11 Get in the last word? 15 Novel opinion? 16 Small square 17 Servant to Queen Amidala
18 Bit of baby babbling
19 Its PAC is the Political Victory Fund 20 Some couples 21 Gossipy schoolmate on “The Facts of Life” 23 “Ish” 25 “You’re killin’ me!”
27 “The Entertainer,” for one
28 Lid bump 29 Taking a stab at? 32 Six-pack
34 It takes the cake 35 Some preparations for the Olympics 36 “That guy’s pathetic!” 37 Statue in Piccadilly Circus 41 Former publishing nickname 42 Off 43 Fiercely criticize 44 How plots are measured 46 Leave in a hurry 48 Carrier seen in “The Aviator” 49 Orange ball 50 Top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival 54 Sheet
55 Bit in some Japanese soup 56 Manor occupant of yore
57 Best Play and Best Moment
Down
1 Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, casually 2 Dickens’s “Little ___” 3 Field of flowers
4 Fox rival, once 5 Something picked up at a coffee shop 6 Give way 7 Flush 8 Hammered 9 Abbr. in a job posting 10 Popular 1950s vehicle making a comeback in the 2010s 11 Prefix with spore or sperm 12 Polemic 13 Team with the longest active World Series drought
(as of 2018) 14 Chinese snack with marblelike patterns on the outside 22 Sometime 24 Much of Chile
25 Tree pictured in van Gogh’s “The Starry Night” 26 Patchy pattern 29 Amateurish 30 Competitors of Grand Ams 31 Part of a cornstalk 33 Beginner’s piano exercise 34 Help out 35 Setting for an Agatha Christie mystery 36 Swings and misses 38 Adult, say 39 Lucky Rabbit’s name in early Disney films 40 Can hardly believe what one sees, say 43 To this point 45 Sound barrier? 46 Big Apple’s “bravest,” briefly 47 Actress Headey of “Game of Thrones” 51 Has too much, for short 52 ___-eared 53 Stole from a drag show?