The New York Times crossword puzzle

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