The New York Times Crossword
No. 0211
ACROSS
1 Words to a skeptic
16 What friendly opponents may do
17 Subject of the so-called “surgeon’s photograph” of 1934
18 Squad leader?
19 Cinemax competitor
20 Judicial ratings grp.
21 Terra’s Greek counterpart
22 British territory in the Atlantic
27 Pioneering automaker
28 Handmade signs?
29 “En ___!”
30 Language spoken along the Mekong
31 Account
32 Collectible print, in brief
33 Morale booster
34 Certain list recipient
35 Bailiwick
36 Big ___
37 Philosopher Diderot
38 High point of the Old Testament, for short
40 Blues Hall-of-Famer James
41 [How horrible!]
42 Word of regret
43 Down
44 Mo. for watching the Perseid meteor shower
45 Fade away
48 Gives an earful
54 Rhetorical question lamenting a lack of respect
55 Implicatively
DOWN
1 Notable founding of 1701
2 Impediments to teamwork
3 Tolkien creatures
4 “Yuck!”
5 Gradually slowing, in music
6 Inventory
7 Lover of Italian opera
8 Field stats
9 Food named for a world capital (but pronounced differently)
10 1962 pop hit with a rhyming title
11 Some unauthorized drawings
12 Justice Dept. bigwigs
13 N.Y.C.’s first subway line
14 Buttonless garment
15 Singer with a 2018 Grammy for Best R&B Album
21 ___ Richter, contemporary artist whose painting “Abstraktes Bild (599)” sold at auction for a record-setting $46.3 million dollars
23 The X-Men, for example
24 Muse for Galileo
25 Muscles strengthened by push-ups, informally
26 Offshore
27 Flat-bottomed riverboat
28 Flash
29 Circumference
32 Hasty getaways
33 Become harder to bear
34 Give oneself something to aim for
36 “Just try to be calm …”
37 Reynolds’s co-star in 1981’s “The Cannonball Run”
39 Carol opener
42 Exclamation of exasperation
45 Exclamation of disappointment
46 Big name in frozen confections
47 Some terminal info, for short
48 Piece of BBQ
49 Amarillo-to-Dallas dir.
50 Creature without ears that uses vibrations to “hear”
51 Company that introduced Saran Wrap
52 Tolkien creature
53 Onetime cable giant acquired by AT&T in 1999