NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 Drink every
last drop from 8 Give a sop to,
maybe
15 Was naturally a part of something 16 Street protester or Tibetan monk 17 Duds 18 Largest of the British Virgin Islands
19 Bad vibrations 20 Things picked
up on beaches 21 Pipe filler 23 Epoch when modern mammals arose
24 “See you then” 25 Soft leathers 26 Like bodybuilders’ arms
27 Fruity and fragrant compounds 29 Ending with many fruit names 30 Competitor of
Century 21 31 Marijuana, in
older slang 34 Be in charge
of
36 Subjects of baseless charges? 38 Food that’s
cured 41 Dangers for
swimmers 43 Benchmark test for British students 44 1960s
catchphrase 45 Young hares 47 Takes stock? 48 21st-century
health menace 49 Millinery items 50 Source of
running water 51 Chanel fragrance with a French name
52 S.R.O.
53 Units in a
horse race
Down
1 Mourn, in a
way
2 Cold
3 Hynde of the
Pretenders 4 Bob of old
children’s TV 5 Theater
portmanteau 6 It had a major part in the Bible
7 N.F.L. stat:
Abbr.
8 Official
proceedings 9 Call on a hot
line?
10 British sitting
room
11 Draws in 12 Made up (for) 13 Sister of Helios 14 Gets the lead
out
20 What are depicted in some blue prints? 22 Knight mare? 28 Jungle
herbivore 30 Chewed out 31 Personal
agenda 32 Desperate
hour
33 Judges 34 “Here, try this” 35 Title for a retired professor 36 Had plateful
after plateful 37 Animal hunted in “Lord of the Flies”
38 Site of a western gunfight 39 Third-largest city of the later Ottoman Empire, surpassed only by Constantinople and Cairo 40 Duties
42 Fur
46 Cough syrup
amts. 49 Daughter of Loki, in Norse myth