The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Brings home
7 “Nah, thanks anyway”
14 Running freely 15 Typical wall colors
17 One with key responsibilities? 18 Oil, informally 19 Certain sorority member
20 Who had a major part in the
Torah?
21 Behavioral quirk 22 One of the Gilmore Girls 24 [Here we go again …]
25 Titaness who abducted Orion 26 Afghans, e.g. 28 Alternatives to wings 30 Insubstantial 32 Grand total? 33 “Don’t let the bedbugs bite!” 34 “The Magpie” and “The Wheat Field,” for two
35 “De dónde ___?” (Spanish 101 query) 36 Palindromic term of address 39 It raised a major red flag
40 Gene pool? 42 Awesome, slangily
43 Worker whose name anagrams to the person’s output
47 No bueno
48 Portion of an ad agency’s budget 50 Specific
51 Brand with a red star in its logo 52 Spot for some piercings
53 Back to back 54 Home to the world’s tallest steel arch bridge
DOWN
1 Repress, with “up”
2 “Moving on …” 3 Gets to the point? 4 Holst’s “The Planets,” for one 5 “No need to worry,” informally 6&7 Disliking, or at least feel-ing indifferent about
8 Waste at a winery 9 Sumptuous 10 Groups involved in class actions, for short?
11 ___ Technica (tech review site)
12 Bided one’s time 13 Bit of deception 16 Investment banker Samuel 20 Descriptor for a superhero
23 Period immediately following Y2K 24 Would you look at that!
27 Composer of many Streisand show tunes 28 Model-turnedTV personality Chrissy
29 Six figures, say 30 Hybrid zoo animal 31 Wackadoodle 32 Who said
“The greatest scientists are artists as well”
33 “Uh-uh”
34 Bed cover
36 Dark Lord of Mordor, in “The Lord of the Rings” 37 It’s just under a foot
38 Passage that connects stories 41 Put to sleep 43 Hasenpfeffer, e.g. 44 ___ bar
45 They’re ahead of their time
46 Leakes of “The Real Housewives of Atlanta”
49 “What of it?” 50 “The World Is Yours” rapper, 1994