Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Smart
5 Music genre
11 Color akin to steel
14 Grocery brand with an accent in its name
15 Weight of the Liberty Bell, approximately
16 Daily newspaper in Sacramento, Calif.
17 ___ May, Marvel Comics character
18 Keep away
20 Spotted
22 Tupac’s “___ Gospel”
23 Unit at a bar
24 Brief pause
25 Kind of rocket
26 Ambitious goal or innovation
30 Suffuse
31 Parent’s command when something almost gets broken by roughhousing siblings
32 Long
33 Some jams
34 Vous ___ (part of a French 101 conjugation)
35 Summer novel, typically
37 Inebriate
38 Fine film forum
39 ___ Wojcicki, C.E.O. of YouTube beginning in 2014
40 Floors
41 Scout’s task
42 Title Mrs. played by Rachel Brosnahan
45 Mood booster
48 Given to giving
50 Language in which “Dia dhuit!” is “Hello!”
51 Sanctuary for many couples
52 “Be that as it may …”
53 Pavlov with a Nobel Prize
54 ___ sauce
55 Execute
56 Displaying remarkable skill
Down
1 “You cannot teach a ___ to walk straight”: Aristophanes
2 Booty
3 “Actually, never mind”
4 Make a long story short
5 “I would never!”
6 Fed the kitty
7 One of a set in
an accordion 8 Didn’t go fast?
9 Dazzling
10 Dazzle
11 Give a bad hand?
12 Booty
13 Villain’s foil
19 Line at the door of a bar
21 Salt or smoke
24 Like umpires, sometimes
25 Mario Kart contestant
26 “Make Me Feel” singer Janelle
27 Gets too personal with zingers, say
28 Greek theater
29 Screen, in a way
30 ___ ghanouj
31 Reckoning
33 Unconditional condition? 36 “Be that as it
may …”
37 Resist
39 Private or public division
41 Flush
42 Many Chicago Booth grads
43 Chocolate brand with the slogan “Irresistibubble”
44 Black as night
45 Hang in the balance
46 Org. featured in “Dr. Strangelove”
47 Bottled (up)
49 ___ Goodman, longtime judge on “Dancing With the Stars”