The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Ring up? 5 Playing at a
party, maybe 10 U.S. soccer legend ___ Howard 13 Devil ___ the tailors (pub game)
15 Kept going 16 Co-founder of Artists Against Fracking 17 Stage
offering
18 Like the 16thcentury ruler Cuauhtémoc 19 Moniker for a noted Boston skyscraper, with “the” 20 Specs for a
modiste 22 Readathon supporters, for short
23 Relief
24 ___ nerve (biceps neighbor) 25 Cans
26 Inside dope 28 Where “Home”
might be found 30 Stuffed
31 Utter 32 “Wow, that’s
wild!” 34 Exemption from usual consequences 36 Some O.K.
fighters 40 Relatives of
cornets
41 The “BA” of the Boston museum MOBA 42 Splash
against 43 Rotated, in a
way, to a pilot 45 Smallish hail
size 46 Motorcycle pioneers ___ and Effie Hotchkiss 47 Most times 49 Operation that yields the remainder from dividing two numbers, in math lingo 50 Entropy 51 Word in the name of many candy offshoots
52 It includes :// 53 13-Across, in
French 54 Opening in a
leaf 55 ___-ops 56 Porous soil 57 Joie de vivre
Down
1 Tough, uncompromising sort 2 Kafka’s unfinished first novel, published posthumously in 1927
3 “Five stars
from me” 4 Charge 5 Household locale where the Coriolis effect is supposedly observed
6 Cold War-era group that included Louis Armstrong 7 Dating profile
info 8 Vetoes 9 Vitamin Shoppe competitor 10 “Betcha can’t beat my score!” 11 Accessible 12 Salon stock 14 It’s a blessing 21 Having
designs 22 Window you might want to close quickly 25 “Creature From the Black Lagoon” costar
27 Some fresh
starts
29 Home of the world’s longest road tunnel (15 miles): Abbr. 31 “Regardless
…”
33 Mount ___, highest peak in the Philippines 34 Ice cream shop posting
35 With dispatch 37 Sports Illustrated’s 2019 Sportsperson of the Year 38 Early trials,
informally 39 Patronizes, in a
way
40 Stop
responding 41 Singer/ songwriter Folds 44 Smartens
(up)
47 “This can’t be
good” 48 Ostentatious
display
50 One of 250,000 in 1937’s “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs”