The new york times crossword

ACROSS

1 Summer program in Huntsville,

Ala.

10 Poor excuse for

a student 12 Making one’s bed, taking a shower and solving a crossword, say 14 Bronze from a

bottle 15 Common bug 16 Fella

18 Cut off 19 Means of communication with Commissioner Gordon

21 ___ blanc 22 Position in an array, to a computer scientist

25 You might bend over backward for it 26 Gets the heck

out of odgeday 28 Fictional weapon of the 23rd century 30 Give updates on in real time, perhaps 32 Comfortable 35 “Clearly, you’d like me to leave that topic alone” 39 Quick study? 40 Some frigid

temps

41 The Bengals,

on scoreboards 42 Trumpeter

Wynton

45 ___ noire 46 Outer: Prefix 47 48

Study

“Less is more,”

for one 51 “You’re a Good Man, Charlie Brown” song 54 Response to someone who got the answer instantly SoulCycle

offering 55

DOWN

1 Bit

2 Confined

3 1998 Sarah

McLachlan hit 4 Part of New

England: Abbr. 5 ___ salad

6 Site that offers vehicle history reports 7 Crooked

8 Got together 9 More, on a

score

10 Mere

placeholders 11 Some unmentionables

12 “Less is more,”

for one 13 Quadstrengthening exercise move 14 Kind of bean that can be used to make falafel 17 Camping

danger 19 Friends 4ever 20 Radisson

competitor 22 Messenger for the gods in the “Iliad” 23 Basilica

section

By Trent H. Evans

24 Curl Up and

___ (punnily named hair salon) 27 Digger’s

harvest 28 Drudge

29 No cock-adoodledoo-ers 31 Former employer of Dwayne (The Rock) Johnson, for short 32 Maker of a jetpropelled pogo stick 33 Pamphlet 34 Like loam and

humus 36 Crushed

a test 37 Suppress 38 Building toy

brand 40 Naval destroyer, in old slang 43 Make sense 44 Téa of CBS’s “Madam Secretary” 45 Grounds 48 Election

season news 49 Grounds 50 Purges 52 Brand of camera or lip balm 53 Idiosyncrasy