The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Drink every last drop from 8 Give a sop to, maybe

15 Was naturally a part of something

16 Street protester or Tibetan monk

17 Duds

18 Largest of the British Virgin Islands

19 Bad vibrations

20 Things picked up on beaches 21 Pipe filler

23 Epoch when modern mammals arose

24 “See you then”

25 Soft leathers

26 Like bodybuilders’ arms 27 Fruity and fragrant compounds

29 Ending with many fruit names 30 Competitor of Century 21 31 Marijuana, in older slang 34 Be in charge of 36 Subjects of baseless charges?

38 Food that’s cured 41 Dangers for swimmers 43 Benchmark test for British students

44 1960s catchphrase 45 Young hares

47 Takes stock? 48 21st-century health menace 49 Millinery items 50 Source of running water 51 Chanel fragrance with a French name

52 S.R.O.

53 Units in a horse race

DOWN

1 Mourn, in a way

2 Cold

3 Hynde of the Pretenders 4 Bob of old children’s TV 5 Theater portmanteau 6 It had a major part in the Bible

7 N.F.L. stat: Abbr. 8 Official proceedings 9 Call on a hot line? 10 British sitting room 11 Draws in

12 Made up (for) 13 Sister of Helios

14 Gets the lead out 20 What are depicted in some blue prints?

22 Knight mare?

28 Jungle herbivore 30 Chewed out

31 Personal agenda 32 Desperate hour

33 Judges

34 “Here, try this”

35 Title for a retired professor 36 Had plateful after plateful 37 Animal hunted in “Lord of the Flies”

38 Site of a western gunfight 39 Third-largest city of the later Ottoman Empire, surpassed only by Constantinople and Cairo

40 Duties

42 Fur

46 Cough syrup amts. 49 Daughter of Loki, in Norse myth