The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Put-ons?

5 Jubilate

15 1997 title role for Peter Fonda

16 San Francisco’s War Memorial, for one

17 Sheltie shelterer, in brief

18 Program that includes Build Back Better, informally

19 Ride

21 Circumstance, in modern slang

22 Heel

23 Not reserve

25 ___ Noël

26 Form of birth control

27 Nickname for Bill Clinton

28 Stumbles for a speaker

29 Make sound

30 Enlighten

33 Old fogy

34 Commanders became part of it in 2022, for short

35 Big shot

36 A whole bunch

37 It’s bound to run in the third quarter

42 Number before nove

43 Tables

44 “Still the Same ___ Me” (George Jones album)

45 Crimean Peninsula resort in W.W. II history

46 Restroom sign

47 Some arcade habitués

50 Drip

51 University stores

52 Like most depositions

53 Someone who can’t stand working?

54 “Not for me”

DOWN

1 ___ Graves (Bond villain in “Die Another Day”)

2 Wool source

3 Does some further editing on

4 Rocky wears one in his famous training montage

5 Book that originated the phrase “skin of my teeth”

6 “Nothing makes sense anymore!”

7 Dead ringers?

8 Rather

9 Like

10 Excited reaction at trivia night

11 For whom the gymnast Nadia Comaneci won gold in 1976: Abbr.

12 Place to get a smoothie

13 “For your consideration” campaign

14 Partnership agreement?

20 Cooks from the box?

24 Amazon area

25 Stage of metamorphosis

27 Bookmaker’s concern

29 ___ Rhubarb, foil for the Katzenjammer Kids of old comics

30 Many a 900 number

31 Some defensive football players

32 “The Sickness

_ _ _ Death” (Kierkegaard book)

33 Italian painter Andrea

34 Marched en masse

35 Supporting strips in construction

37 Worker who processes wool

38 1984 #3 hit with the lyric “Ain’t no law against it yet”

39 State bordering Arizona and New Mexico

40 Radicals

41 Group with the 1961 hit “Rama Lama Ding Dong,” with “the”

43 ___ d’Or

45 Harsh cry

48 Derek ___, former president of Harvard

49 ID since 1935