NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Clear, as the deck 5 Nuts (over) 9 Some office workers on “Mad Men”

11 Greek god of the winds

13 Literary profile 16 Speed

17 Links things? 18 Romance novelist Roberts 19 Woman’s name that means “life” 20 Vitamin supplement brand 22 Bud

23 It forms at the mouth

25 Majors in acting 26 Not be stuck in one’s ways 28 Close ones

31 Be a bad winner 32 Home where the heart is?

33 Pinball player’s undoing

36 Is blessed with 37 Flood

38 Title locale for a Hemingway novel, with “the”

40 Tide competitor 41 Sews up

42 Strain

BABY BLUES

BALDO

B.C.

BEETLE BAILEY

BLONDIE

DUSTIN 43 Woman’s name in English that’s a man’s name in Catalan

45 What a “R-r-r-ring!” in the kitchen signifies

46 Slips, e.g.

54 Person with no one

to play with 55 Names

DOWN

1 Worker in Albany or Sacramento, say 2 “Now ___ talking!” 3 Tokyo-based carrier 4 Game played on a 90-foot-long court 5 Painter’s mixture 6 “Peachy!”

7 A stream might run through it

8 Hose and belt sellers

9 Bald-faced

10 Joey Dee’s backup group in 1960s pop, with “the”

11 One who might grade on the curve? 12 Rows

13 Street ___ 14 Western New York natives 15 Discontinue 20 Choke 21 Faint prints, in

detective work 24 Like Wookiees 27 Member of the South Asian diaspora

29 One of the Wayans

brothers

30 Classic western hero who says “A man has to be what he is, Joey. Can’t break the mold” 33 Nails for kites 34 Word on a French

wine bottle

35 Like bad, bad Leroy Brown vis-à-vis a junkyard dog, in song

36 Mideast traveler, of

a sort

39 Double or triple feat

in the Olympics 44 View from Memphis 45 “Nuts!”

47 Challenge for a

barber

48 “The Problem With ___” (2017 documentary) 49 Annual three-day

celebration

50 Tide competitor 51 In the back

52 Luau offering 53 Backing