NY Times Puzzle No. 0901

ACROSS

1 Food Network

host ___ Brown

6 Channel owned by Paramount, for short

9 Sharp

14 Got excited over the newest video game release, say

16 Sanskrit for

“force”

17 Stone-faced

sorts?

18 Adams with a Presidential

Medal of Freedom

19 “In that case …”

20 Rapper with the 2012 #1 album “Life Is Good”

21 Discounted

22 The corner of one is called a canthus

23 Form of some

soaps 24 Most popular baby boy’s name of the 2000s

25 Disaster

29 City parks and

plazas, say

32 Sound from a

saxophone

33 ___ Yello (drink)

34 Daybreak?

35 The late Mrs. Flanders on “The Simpsons”

36 Alice ___, 20th-century women’s suffrage activist

37 Commence

39 Trademark

difference-maker

41 Tears up

42 Succeed, as a

suggestion

43 Eponymous

Belgian town

46 Work periods

48 Agcy. within the Dept. of Transportation 49 Light up?

50 Was committed

51 “Phooey!”

53 Biopharmaceutical giant in the Fortune 200

54 Rhyming assent

55 Inventor of the first commercially successful steel plow

56 Montgomery of

jazz

57 Bids one club, say

DOWN

1 Longhorn’s

longtime rival

2 Like many salads

3 Abrupt

4 Indie band whose name is a twoword command

5 Prefix with -plasm

6 Building installations that work with beams

7 Choices for

painters

8 They’re even at

the start, in brief

9 Outside ___

10 Malicious programs that block file access

11 “Wow, would you

look at that!”

12 Silverstein who wrote the words and music for Johnny Cash’s “A Boy Named Sue”

13 Lager descriptor

15 Ball of energy

21 Nonfruit ingredients in some healthful smoothies

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23 Pro ___

24 Some adventures

in the Serengeti

25 Place where employees may all be holding together?

26 Assessors of verbal reasoning, in brief

27 Word with bright

or blind

28 Winter Olympics

sight

29 Calls balls, say

30 Gather 31 Range mentioned in “Take Me Home, Country Roads”

35 Department store

eponym

37 Traipses (about)

38 First Southeastern Conference school to field an African American athlete

40 Say a prayer,

maybe

43 Business interest 44 Name on 2008

campaign stickers

45 City east of

Montpellier

46 Roe source

47 Unlike a

mustang

48 Charlatan

49 “Oh, you flatter

me!”

51 Index since 1896,

with “the”

52 One way to say

“yes”