The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Boatloads or truckloads 10 Question suggesting “What
odd behavior!”
12 Gains ground
14 Worker’s end-of-year wish 15 Pitiful
16 Figure whose name derives from the Hebrew for “adversary”
18 Areas to practice driving skills 20 Middle of Middlesex 21 Taproom offering, in brief 22 Output of the world’s largest manufacturer of musical instruments
26 Canadian N.H.L. team, on
scoreboards
27 1977 best-selling novel set in
a hospital
29 Broke
30 Artist of “La Maja Desnuda” and “La Maja Vestida” 31 Five-time N.B.A. All-Star Thompson
32 Words that guide
33 Uber ___
34 Join so as to work together 35 Third most-spoken language
in the world
36 Slips
37 “___ does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from ___”: Jeanne Moreau 38 Stockpiles
40 Get even with
41 Famous bridge site
43 Not allowing for variation 45 Payment option
46 What a nod might indicate 49 Investor’s considerations 50 What old memories often
cause
53 Made ’em look
54 Preservers of crop biodiversity
DOWN
1 [So what?]
2 Kiddie ride?
3 Utterance with one’s hand on
a Bible, maybe
4 Comics sound effects
5 City east of Tempe
6 Abbr. below the name of
some businesses
7 Highest degree attainable? 8 Defenses are prepared for
them
9 Pioneer in the field of
exobiology
10 “You sure about that?” 11 Drawers on chests, maybe 12 “Stop complaining. I didn’t
do anything wrong” 13 Bouncing a penny into a cup,
fancily shuffling cards, etc.
14 Indianapolis 500 venue, informally, with “the” 17 Balance sheet quantity 19 Jazz sobriquet
20 Ones helping players get a
round?
23 Song title in both
“The Sound of Music” and “West Side Story” 24 Certain verbal agreements
25 Regards
28 Certain verbal agreement 30 “How about that!”
38 What’s going on?
39 Barely run
42 Cartoon character often seen
sucking his thumb
44 They contain fruit
46 Gave rise to
47 Entertainment reference that
began as a Usenet group 48 ___ Amendment (2010s extension of the Kyoto Protocol)
51 Tip jar item
52 All House speakers until 2007