The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Paid off
7 Pinky swear, e.g.
11 Pause in the middle of a line
of poetry
12 Creature also known as a
greenfly
14 Substitute for coffee 17 Baptisms by fire
18 Palmed, say
19 Prefix with consciousness 20 Last word of the first sentence of Kafka’s “The Metamorphosis”
21 Pick
22 “Don’t Look Up” star, in
tabloids
23 Parts of baseballs and mines 24 Country with two official languages — Guaraní and Spanish
26 Move from side to side, as a
ship
27 2000 Sisqó hit with a
rhyming title
29 1924 tale of derring-do 30 New Jersey’s “unofficial rock
theme of our State’s youth” 31 Something picked up by a
silent butler
34 Minions
35 Basic technique in
skateboarding
37 Nitwit, to a Brit
38 “What do you want me to do
about it?”
39 Be plucky?
40 Hollywood, with “the” 41 Astronaut Jemison 42 Didn’t cause trouble 43 “Golly!”
46 It might work on a block 47 They might work on a block 48 Floor
49 Europe’s oldest capital
DOWN
1 Lumbering tool
2 Turn in
3 Musician who helped save
Carnegie Hall from demolition 4 Put up
5 Muffs
6 “Against the ___” (Thomas
Pynchon novel)
7 On equal footing, in Latin 8 Mirrored
9 Tea, in Mandarin
10 Result of a poor audio
connection, perhaps
11 Part of the body first successfully transplanted in 1905
13 Exponential ___ (function in
physics)
14 Like many street-level
apartments
15 Juice boxes? 16 Rumpus
21 Danced to the music of
Carlos Acuña, say
22 “We / Jazz ___” (line in Gwendolyn Brooks’s
“We Real Cool”)
24 Popular dishes in Québécois
cuisine
25 Went round and round in
circles
28 Record holder for the most
M.L.B. All-Star selections 29 Spell
30 Attire at some academies 31 Exams for British 18-yearolds
32 Jewelry store tools
33 Minds
34 Mentally worn out
36 Mount with facility
37 Vegan sandwich, for short 39 Enforcement mechanisms,
metaphorically
41 Where to pick sides? 42 Handful, say
44 Overly rehearsed 45 Occupation of Leo Bloom in “The Producers,” for short