The New York Times Crossword
44 ACROSS
1 Abundant
6 “___ and Basie!” (1963 jazz
album)
10 Calendar heading named for
a Norse deity: Abbr. 13 “Everything’s going to be fine” 14 Bucolic spots
15 Artist colony in a desert 16 Digital color presentation? 18 Vegetable also called “ladies’
fingers”
19 Seriously
20 Colon or semicolon, in an
emoticon
21 “Men in Black” antagonists 22 Long run?
23 Bonny ones
25 ___ Explorer
26 Something that may be
packed
28 Heckerling who directed “Look Who’s Talking” and “Clueless”
29 Courtroom conclusion 32 Comment after an amazing
statement
33 What might be found
between X and Z?
34 Small amphibian
35 Subj. for class cut-ups? 36 Direction of many a lavatory
on a plane
37 One-fourth of KISS
39 Olympic skater Midori
40 ___ Chang, Harry Potter’s
first love interest
43 1982 Disney film with a 2010 sequel
Kitty food? 47 It covers a lot of ground 48 “Walk”
49 Endor native
50 Spirits of Greece
51 Like a tapestry
52 ___ Sarnoff, Warner Bros.
C.E.O. beginning in 2019 53 Participated in a pistol duel 54 They’re full of opinions
DOWN
1 Helicopter traffic reporter on
“The Simpsons”
2 Intended
3 Bends at the Bolshoi
4 [I forgot the words …]
5 Local alternative
6 Actress Pompeo of “Grey’s
Anatomy”
7 Adornments sometimes
made with kukui nuts
8 Hold up
9 Vapers don’t get it
10 Tries chai, say
11 Quartet in Revelation 12 Nation conspicuously missing from the Wilson-proposed League of Nations, in brief 15 Santa’s sleighful
17 How you might count to five 20 Dining with one’s child? 23 Countertop or flooring
materials
24 Children’s author/illustrator
Hoff
25 Problem for a king
26 Cry made while swinging a
baton
27 “Put a tiger in your tank”
sloganeer
29 Roman army leader 30 Cellphone plan concern 31 Card game in which jacks are
the top four trumps
32 Got out of Dodge, say 33 Some kitchen appliances 38 Tennessee governor who
became president
39 “Say no more”
40 Herb often used in preparing
potatoes and omelets 41 Upped
42 Is on first
44 Really come down
45 Move, maybe ominously 46 Take to another dimension? 47 Lead-in to cow or lion 48 Uranus, e.g.