NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across 1 Really busy 7 Ban from

argument 13 Greasers’ loves 15 According to

schedule

16 Bar bowlful 18 Banana Republic’s parent company 19 Either of two extremes in an orbit

20 CD follower 22 Symbol of change, in math

23 Picks

24 Pick

26 First pope to be called “the Great”

27 Jr. and sr. 28 City license once needed to work in an establishment serving alcohol 30 Photogenic,

informally 31 Get all twisted

up

32 Itches

33 Part of what makes you you

35 Decline 36 Stock letters 39 Ancient city rediscovered in 1870 40 Blackballs 41 Royal

Catherine 42 “Duck ___” (classic Warner Bros. short) 44 Its business is

booming 45 Nerve 46 Expired 48 Term of respect in old westerns 50 Wrap up 51 Loan

specification 52 Boil

53 Piano trio?

Down 1 “Hummina

hummina!” 2 Onetime Ebert

partner 3 Sources of

some tremors 4 “Mrs. ___ Goes to Paris” (Paul Gallico novel) 5 A bushelful 6 See 7-Down 7 With 6-Down, what may follow Indiana or Illinois 8 Like the best

streams? 9 Protection from a shark, maybe

10 Bad things to

blow

11 Like valentines 12 Settled 14 Party flasher 17 Up to this

point

21 Source of guiding principles 24 Ova, e.g. 25 Becomes settled in a new environment 28 Speleologist 29 Minds

30 Make more

palatable 31 Give up 33 Material 34 Style of Southern hip-hop 35 Things drawn by eccentric people 36 Home to the ancient Zapotec civilization 37 Like opposing groups on “Survivor” 38 Inches

41 Not natural 43 Strain of potent marijuana 45 Speck

47 Plain white

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49 Plan out