The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Bands popular in the ’70s 10 Uses a letter opener on 15 Later on, when appropriate 16 “The Pirates of Penzance”
ingénue
17 Is resolute
18 Grammy winner with the
surname Adkins
19 National ___ Hall of Fame, in
Rochester, N.Y.
20 Flip, say
21 Esther of TV’s “Good Times” 22 “Breaking Bad” protagonist 23 Offer sheet?
25 Refresh, in a way
28 “Quit your bickering!”
29 Left on deck
30 Reached the point of no
return?
33 Like many Ariz. residents 34 Fraught with risk 35 Gubernatorial option 36 Snow-capped peak of song 38 Yellowstone traffic halters 39 One going paperless in April,
say
40 Gags
41 Once-common mall fixtures 43 Nut chewed as a stimulant 44 Harshly colorful
45 Certain computer key 47 Face-covering dance move 50 Star N.F.L. receiver ___
Beckham Jr.
51 “Stoned Soul Picnic”
songwriter
53 Counterpart of butch 54 Language in which “Hello, how are you?” is “Saluton, kiel vi fartas?”
55 Its penultimate line is “Poems
are made by fools like me” 56 Franchise with the “Dominating the Deep” DVD set
DOWN
1 Sight in a produce aisle
2 “I’m ___ you!”
3 Danny ___ , ventriloquist
dummy for Jimmy Nelson 4 Pressure over a debt 5 Second or third version
6 “Life ___” (2014 Roger Ebert
documentary)
7 Pester playfully
8 Finance co. rebranded as Ally
Financial
9 Branch of mathematics that
uses “” and “”
10 Brain
11 Classic film that gave us the
term “paparazzi”
12 “Pretty sure” 13 Restless movements, maybe 14 Unwelcome forecast
22 “I … I can’t even”
24 Like presses
25 Certain paddy crop
26 Car with a lightning bolt logo 27 French dessert of soft custard 28 Patch growth
30 Things that generate a lot of
cookie dough?
31 Early educator of George
Orwell
32 Dijon denials
34 Course division
37 Some airplane seats 38 Fortification
40 Traditional wedding vow word 41 Up
42 Showing less refinement 43 Gene who’s considered “the founding father of the modern drum set”
46 Far from deliberate
47 10 micronewtons
48 Museo contents
49 Enter into a calendar 52 “Thanks anyway, pardner”