NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

1 Hospital attachment

11 Get in the last word?

15 Novel opinion? 16 Small square 17 Servant to Queen Amidala

18 Bit of baby babbling 19 Its PAC is the Political Victory Fund

20 Some couples 21 Gossipy schoolmate on “The Facts of Life” 23 “Ish”

25 “You’re killin’ me!” 27 “The Entertainer,” for one

28 Lid bump

29 Taking a stab at? 32 Six-pack

34 It takes the cake 35 Some preparations for the Olympics 36 “That guy’s pathetic!”

37 Statue in Piccadilly Circus

41 Former publishing nickname

42 Off

43 Fiercely criticize 44 How plots are measured

46 Leave in a hurry 48 Carrier seen in “The Aviator” 49 Orange ball

50 Top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival 54 Sheet

55 Bit in some Japanese soup 56 Manor occupant of yore

57 Best Play and Best Moment

1 Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, casually

2 Dickens’s “Little ___”

3 Field of flowers 4 Fox rival, once 5 Something picked up at a coffee shop

6 Give way

7 Flush

8 Hammered

9 Abbr. in a job posting

10 Popular 1950s vehicle making a comeback in the 2010s

11 Prefix with spore or sperm

12 Polemic

13 Team with the longest active World Series drought (as of 2018) 14 Chinese snack with marblelike patterns on the outside 22 Sometime

24 Much of Chile 25 Tree pictured in van Gogh’s “The Starry Night”

26 Patchy pattern 29 Amateurish 30 Competitors of

Grand Ams

31 Part of a cornstalk 33 Beginner’s piano

exercise

34 Help out

35 Setting for an Agatha Christie mystery

36 Swings and

misses

38 Adult, say

39 Lucky Rabbit’s name in early Disney films

40 Can hardly believe

what one sees, say 43 To this point 45 Sound barrier? 46 Big Apple’s

“bravest,” briefly 47 Actress Headey of “Game of Thrones”

51 Has too much, for

short

52 ___-eared

53 Stole from a drag

show?