The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS 1 Call in the evening 5 Thunderous sound 9 Island group near Fiji 14 Heckelphone lookalike 15 Good eats 17 For which two heads are

better than one? 18 Doing particularly well 19 Prefers charges against 20 Site of an annual British

music festival 21 Take advantage of 23 Ben who played the Wizard

in “Wicked” 24 Grocery quantity 25 Soul producer 26 Lose intensity 27 Judas never attained it 33 Setting for Hawthorne’s

“The Marble Faun” 34 Really affected 35 Pasta option 36 Four-hour tour features? 38 Roughly 1% of the earth’s

atmosphere 39 Oaf 40 Wild 41 Offensive opportunities 45 Procter & Gamble product

line 47 Without trying 49 Bygone cracker brand 51 Increases risk and reward 52 Maker of PerformX sportswear 53 Gets very near 54 Eatery with scales 55 Steel brackets with two

flanges 56 “You ___ Me”

(1957 R&B hit) 57 Fall location

DOWN 1 ___ & Hobbies

(eBay category) 2 1998 coming-of-age novel by

Nick Hornby 3 Oscar Madison’s weekly event 4 Attends to 5 Tool with a bezel 6 How a nocturne is often

played 7 First high priest of the

Israelites 8 Leave nothing to chance 9 2013 Sandra Bullock/

Melissa McCarthy comedy 10 Bid 11 Very sad turnout 12 Big ravine 13 Commercial manufacturers 16 British Open winner of 1971

and 1972 22 Fitting 24 Unadorned 25 Baby foxes 27 Adjective-forming suffix 28 Took a course? 29 Old baseball coverage? 30 In a union 31 Atmospheric problem 32 All washed up 34 Broadway chorus dancers,

informally 37 Sub entries 38 Word with carpenter or

weaver 40 Mean 41 Full of excitement 42 Easygoing 43 Arabian port that’s

home to Sinbad Island 44 Part taker 45 Pasta option 46 ___ Chigurh (“No Country for Old Men” villain) 48 Lectern locale 50 Figure in the Ynglinga

saga