The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Clear, as the deck
5 Nuts (over)
9 Some office workers on “Mad Men”
11 Greek god of the winds 13 Literary profile
16 Speed
17 Links things? 18 Romance novelist Roberts 19 Woman’s name that means “life”
20 Vitamin supplement brand 22 Bud
23 It forms at the mouth 25 Majors in acting
26 Not be stuck in one’s ways 28 Close ones
31 Be a bad winner
32 Home where the heart is? 33 Pinball player’s undoing 36 Is blessed with
37 Flood
38 Title locale for a Hemingway novel, with “the”
40 Tide competitor
41 Sews up
42 Strain
43 Woman’s name in English that’s a man’s name in Catalan
45 What a “R-r-r-ring!” in the kitchen signifies
46 Slips, e.g. 54 Person with no one to play with
55 Names
DOWN
1 Worker in Albany or Sacramento, say
2 “Now ___ talking!” 3 Tokyo-based carrier 4 Game played on a 90-footlong court
5 Painter’s mixture 6 “Peachy!”
7 A stream might run through it 8 Hose and belt sellers 9 Bald-faced
10 Joey Dee’s backup group in 1960s pop, with “the” 11 One who might grade on the curve?
12 Rows
13 Street ___
14 Western New York natives 15 Discontinue
20 Choke
21 Faint prints, in detective work
24 27 Like Member Wookiees of the South Asian diaspora
29 One of the Wayans brothers 30 Classic western hero who says “A man has to be what he is, Joey. Can’t break the mold”
33 Nails for kites
34 Word on a French wine bottle 35 Like bad, bad Leroy Brown vis-à-vis a junkyard dog, in song 36 Mideast traveler, of a sort 39 Double or triple feat in the Olympics
44 View from Memphis 45 “Nuts!”
47 Challenge for a barber 48 “The Problem With ___” (2017 documentary) 49 Annual three-day celebration 50 Tide competitor
51 In the back
52 Luau offering
53 Backing