The New York Times Crossword
No. 0209
ACROSS
1 Beaming
10 Sounds of melodrama
14 Wind up alone?
15 Mideast capital
16 Fuzzy exotic pet
17 Performed by the whole
ensemble, in music
18 Ruler often seen in a robe
19 Classified in levels
21 Word with tie or fly
22 Sign by a highway exit
23 Hens, but not roosters
24 Big container
25 Yoga pose with arms extended and legs folded over the head
27 Where a flask might be kept
28 High-speed commuter option 30 Court ruling?
31 Like the Lilliputians
32 Trend for unengaged employees
35 Twist
36 O, on a letter
37 Hall mate?
38 Social media influencer Addison ___
39 Stephen Sondheim’s “The Worst ___ in London”
40 Frequent conspiracy subject
41 Pops
43 Invention originally used as a yellow dye, in brief
44 Baby bat
47 The Traveling Wilburys or Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young 50 Track selection
51 Conceited sorts
52 In concert
54 Match up
55 It makes a spin around a dance floor
56 Disdainful sounds
57 One-sided dice?
DOWN
1 Caption in a comparison ad
2 “Me ___ ...” (Spanish for “My name is ...”)
3 Sensational
4 Lead
5 “___ Explain Things to Me,” influential 2014 essay collection by Rebecca Solnit
6 Question of legitimacy
7 “___ and the Good Book” (1958 jazz album)
8 Monthly with a palindromic name
9 Fly
10 Like some teenagers and pasta
11 At stake
12 DC Comics weapons, one of which can be seen at the Smithsonian
13 Passes with ease
15 Suck it!
20 Overwhelming and needing time for consideration
22 It’s a blast
24 Facial concealer
25 Good words, so to speak
26 Natural necklace
28 These might help people take deep breaths
29 Bacon or pancetta
31 One of the Jackson brothers
33 “___ pasa?”
34 First president to own a car
35 Grumpy toward
39 Break into bits
42 Gives (out)
43 Southern city that was once home to Black Wall Street
44 Philippine island that’s home to Iloilo
45 Scrooge, to Donald Duck
46 Some spa treatments
48 Exposure units
49 Lena of “Alias”
50 Place for a ring
53 Place for a ring