NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 Eats dinner? before 10 Gamble 14 Dangerous toy 16 Dramatic
opening 17 No light amount of work 19 Photo ___ 20 Gets hitched 21 Overseas dissent
22 Exploit 24 Go down or come up
26 Shot contents 28 Garment originally fashionable in the late 1950s
32 Childhood home of Grant
Wood and Elijah
Wood
34 Talk show host named in the #MeToo movement
35 Dance in which
“you bring your knees in tight”
36 Way to get around writer’s block?
37 Makes tingly, in
a way
41 Dinner from the
oven
42 Home of the
11,000-footdeep Cotahuasi
Canyon
43 External: Prefix
44 Fully accept 51 Wine aperitif 52 TV series whose first episode was titled “Where Is Everybody?” 55 Polo on the small screen 56 They typically revolve around
steps
57 Polite reply to
Aunt Polly
58 Subject of many
emo songs
Down
1 Orchard pests 2 River from the Appalachians 3 Program that analyzes the structure of input 4 Emergency key 5 So
6 City SW of Kansas City 7 “___ 101” (former Nickelodeon sitcom) 8 Connection concerns, in brief 9 Renaissance painter Guido 10 Org. in 2017’s
“Dunkirk” 11 What laying a king on its side in chess means 12 “Elektra”
composer 13 Their checks
don’t check out 15 Like half a deck 18 Pictures that might make you hungry 23 Owner of the Cheshire Cat, with “the” 25 Harden the outside of through cooking 27 Hearty entree 28 Actress Hayek 29 Spring arrival 30 Certain racing teams
31 ___ Zor-El, Supergirl’s birth name 33 Problem for a plumber 34 Crib users 35 Counterpart of an iamb 36 Fairly
38 River to the South China Sea 39 Comes with 40 Least in question 45 Unaccounted for, briefly 46 Unappealing trumpet sound 47 Frosty film 48 Jon who wrote and illustrated “Smart Feller, Fart Smeller and Other Spoonerisms” 49 Julie ___, host of TV’s “Big Brother” 50 Italian diminutive suffix
53 ___ O’Hara, Martian’s host on old TV’s “My Favorite Martian” 54 Wine shop offering, informally