The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 First person?
7 Backups
13 First name in daytime talk
14 Red Guard’s attire
15 Like “To be or not to be”
16 Baking aisle mascot
17 Smart device feature
19 Ice Breakers alternative
20 Aftermath
21 Engagement calendar info:
Abbr.
25 “That’s so not the case!”
26 Fodor’s listing
27 Assembly at a camporee,
perhaps
28 Anti-trafficking org.
29 Comic strip with the 1998 collection “I Am Woman, Hear Me Snore”
30 Skylar of the “Pitch Perfect”
films
31 Start of many a Google
search
32 Line just before a comma
34 “Anything to ___?”
35 Brand with an iComfort line
37 Leporine creatures
38 Bags one might have when tired?
39 Tanks and such
40 Botched
41 “Got it”
42 Intersections requiring a turn
43 Singing duet?
44 Bartolomé de las ___, social reformer during Spain’s colonial era
45 Coin featuring Lady Liberty
and a bald eagle
48 Part of a forecast without
clouds
51 Colonnade sight
53 Pirates, in old slang
54 Rumpled, say
55 “Yeah, sure”
56 Like some fruits and tennis
players
DOWN
1 Setting of the Robert Graves memoir “Good-bye to All That,” in brief
2 Mopey teen’s lament
3 “Can’t eat another bite”
4 “I don’t want to hear any
excuses!”
5 Some major productions
6 Oil-___
7 Press “K” while on YouTube
8 Jordan is found on one, notably
9 Yoga retreat locales 10 Central point
11 Lead-in to diversity
12 Home for a farrow
14 Pastry that gets pulled apart
16 Where scenes on Tatooine
were filmed for “Star Wars”
18 They’re full of twists and turns
19 Feverishly tries to open
22 Cookout dish
23 Big outdoor June event
24 Length of a president’s veto window
26 Adolphe who invented a
musical instrument
27 Costco rival, familiarly
29 Titan
33 Still in the box, say
36 Beyond what’s needed
41 Phone line?
43 Goes on
44 Singer with the 1962 album
“Sentimentally Yours”
46 Aces have low ones, for short
47 Major production
48 “___: Vegas”
49 One of a piano trio
50 ___ oxygénée (hydrogen
peroxide: Fr.)
52 Like diamonds