NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Von Trapp daughter in “The Sound of Music” 6 Range for 1-Across 10 Some bad joke tellers, stereotypically 14 Major for a future museum curator 16 Singer Brickell 17 Steam-powered device? 18 Wheedle 19 Schmutz on Santa’s boots 20 Mila of “Black Swan” 21 Cinematography tool

22 Cast opener 23 Calls to account 25 Knives can make them

27 Props (up) 28 Morally reprehensible 29 Headwear almost never worn outdoors 32 Garments worn at Hogwarts 33 Language in which “thank you” is “khob chai”

34 Peppery herb 35 Shopping destination that sounds risqué 37 Coloring

38 On the up and

up?

39 Leasing unit 40 Sides in chess, symbolically 41 Block at sea 42 One who tells a tale full of sound and fury, per Macbeth 43 Hypes 45 Jason of “The Incredibles” 48 Arab nation once colonized by the Portuguese 49 This might sound sad 51 Value not appearing on any Scrabble tile

52 “Don’t be such a baby!” 53 Online marketplace since 2005 54 Some referee calls, for short 55 Joint part

Down

1 Dr. Zhivago’s love

2 State flower of Tennessee 3 Chisel, say 4 Marine mollusk exoskeleton vendor, in a tongue twister? 5 Pronto

6 When to meet

for lunch, maybe 7 Enemy of the

Avengers 8 Nursery

9 Setting for 400+ miles of the Euphrates: Abbr. 10 Useful cryptography tool to have on hand?

11 Not mature 12 Array on an instrument panel 13 Super-hot 15 Preacher’s charge

21 DVD special feature 22 Adage suggesting the value of working expeditiously 24 The way

25 Pay phone feature 26 Ones turning up the volume? 27 Some mudrock 28 Yearbook grp.

29 Monty Python genre 30 Yiddish language author Sholem 31 Winter setting in Tinseltown 36 ___ Greene, mobster in “The Godfather” 39 Daily newspaper section

40 ___ one 41 Regatta markers 42 One of the Nereids

44 Not fooled by 45 Dangerous kind of shark

46 Post hoc, ___ propter hoc (common fallacy)

47 Fall location 49 Dismount surface 50 Realm of Otto I: Abbr.