NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Article of attire akin to a tarboosh
4 Facetious response to “How’d you know that?”
7 One might be
forever
12 Union deserters
14 Choice for those eager to retire and travel?
16 ___ Plus
(brand with a “Lubrastrip”)
17 Brownishorange shade
18 Big brass
20 Reliable
21 Baglike
structure
22 Spacewalk, e.g., in NASA shorthand
23 Insect repellent
ingredient
24 Twitter : retweet :: Facebook : ___
26 Email notification, maybe
27 Go (for)
30 Hot dogs do
this
31 Bar exam?
33 Early trans-atlantic voyager
34 Creature in Liberty Mutual ads
35 Build
36 Small bit of
floor décor 38 Material harvested for its hydrophobic properties
39 Basic cleaner
40 Actor who voiced the title character in 2018’s “Sherlock Gnomes”
41 Like some
toothpastes
42 Choice for a cinematographer
43 Swab
44 Exec with a
noted mansion
46 “The weapon of the powerless against the powerful,” according to Molly Ivins
49 “100%
happening!”
51 State in which you might get a tax deduction
53 One with briefs,
briefly
54 Defcon 1
mentality
55 Lisa with the
1994 hit “Stay”
56 Fuji, e.g.
57 ___ Lovett of “Sweeney Todd”
58 Snoop
DOWN
1 Achievements
2 Really, really hot
3 “100% not
happening!”
4 First name on the Supreme Court 5 Desertlike
6 /, maybe
7 Something you can’t get in a restaurant
8 Food for a
grizzly bear
9 Doesn’t
hesitate
10 Apt name for a yoga instructor?
11 Talk up?
13 Uncle ___
14 Hot spot
15 George Washington signed America’s first one in 1790
19 TV roommates
for 50+ years
23 Fix, as in beta
25 Penny-___
26 Recapitulate
27 Excessive
28 Unlikely member of the “clean-plate club”
29 Bit of ink 31 Some guest roles on cop shows
32 Pressing need
33 Bud
37 Convictions
41 Le ___
(newspaper)
42 Von Trapp daughter who sings “Sixteen Going on Seventeen”
43 Indicative and
subjunctive, e.g.
45 Spacecraft
activity
46 Org. concerned
with lab safety?
47 50+ group
48 Word with
round or road
49 Symbol of
opportunity
50 Indian lentil
dish
52 What you might say after reading a tricky crossword clue