NY Times Puzzle No. 0819
ACROSS
1 “Excuse me while I light my ___” (Bob Marley lyric)
7 Theater
backers?
13 Ho-hum
15 11-sided coin,
informally
16 “Damn right!”
18 Not learned
19 Word shortened from a threeword phrase that can be further shortened by dropping its first, fourth and fifth letters
20 Ball game
22 Very much in
23 Narragansett Bay and New York Harbor, for two
24 Broadcast
alternative
25 Labor demand?
26 Numbers after
a no.
27 “The Swedish
Sphinx”
28 Uncanny
29 Coupons, e.g.
31 Embellish something unnecessarily
32 Baby
33 Asian appetizer
34 Locale of van Gogh’s “The Bedroom” paintings
35 Ones calling the shots, in brief?
38 Ending with
cyclo
39 Harsh lighting?
40 Acquiescent
41 Routine
42 Component of
a Zoom call
43 Dig, say 44 “Tough
cookies”
46 Bronze finish,
maybe
48 Foolish
49 Skeptical look
50 Takes a little hair off, perhaps
51 Minimal 1 Basketball, e.g.
2 Get ready, as
concrete
3 Meme creature
4 Key chain
5 She played Bonnie in 1967’s “Bonnie and Clyde”
6 Giant syllable
7 Common golf
mistake
8 It might receive
scoops
9 The anchorman
in “Anchorman”
10 Rushed
11 Cell division
12 Boil
14 Permit required of old jazz musicians
17 Preoccupations
21 They come full circle
Risk for people with braces Key’s partner Word after good or by
Weariness, vice and want, in Voltaire’s “Candide”
24
25 27
28
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29 Where most of the inventions of Leonardo da Vinci are stored
30 ___ Ehrenreich, Han Solo’s portrayer in “Solo: A Star Wars Story”
31 “Knock yourself
out!”
32 1909 Nobelist for contributions to the invention of radio
33 Level
35 One getting
schooled
36 Goes
radioactive?
37 N.S.A. surveillance program that shares its name with an entity in the “Terminator” movies
39
Seconds 40 Supposed subject of Taylor Swift’s “Dear John”
42 Potter’s product
43 Fall behind in
the end
45 Popular
47
Swish miss?