NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

Article of attire akin to a tarboosh 4 Facetious response to “How’d you know that?”

7 One might be forever

12 Union deserters 14 Choice for those eager to retire and travel?

16 ___ Plus (brand with

a “Lubrastrip”) 17 Brownish-orange

shade

18 Big brass 20 Reliable

21 Baglike structure 22 Spacewalk, e.g., in NASA shorthand

23 Insect repellent

ingredient

24 Twitter : retweet :: Facebook : ___ 26 Email notification,

maybe

27 Go (for)

30 Hot dogs

do this

31 Bar exam?

33 Early trans-atlantic

voyager

34 Creature in Liberty

Mutual ads

35 Build

36 Small bit of floor

décor

38 Material harvested for its hydrophobic properties

39 Basic cleaner

BABY BLUES

BALDO

B.C.

BEETLE BAILEY

BLONDIE

DUSTIN 40 Actor who voiced the title character in 2018’s “Sherlock Gnomes”

41 Like some

toothpastes 42 Choice for a

cinematographer 43 Swab

44 Exec with a noted

mansion

46 “The weapon of the powerless against the powerful,” according to Molly Ivins

49 “100% happening!” 51 State in which you might get a tax deduction

53 One with briefs,

briefly

54 Defcon 1 mentality 55 Lisa with the 1994

hit “Stay”

56 Fuji, e.g.

57 ___ Lovett of

“Sweeney Todd” 58 Snoop

DOWN

1 Achievements 2 Really, really hot 3 “100% not happening!” 4 First name on the Supreme Court 5 Desertlike

6 /, maybe 7 Something you can’t get in a restaurant

8 Food for a grizzly bear 9 Doesn’t hesitate 10 Apt name for a yoga instructor? 11 Talk up?

13 Uncle ___

14 Hot spot

15 George Washington signed America’s first one in 1790 19 TV roommates for 50+ years

23 Fix, as in beta 25 Penny-___ 26 Recapitulate 27 Excessive 28 Unlikely member of the “clean-plate club”

29 Bit of ink

31 Some guest roles on cop shows 32 Pressing need 33 Bud

37 Convictions

41 Le ___ (newspaper) 42 Von Trapp daughter who sings “Sixteen Going on Seventeen” 43 Indicative and subjunctive, e.g. 45 Spacecraft activity 46 Org. concerned with lab safety?

47 50+ group

48 Word with round or road

49 Symbol of opportunity 50 Indian lentil dish 52 What you might say after reading a tricky crossword clue