NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Brings home

7 “Nah, thanks anyway”

14 Running freely 15 Typical wall colors 17 One with key responsibilities? 18 Oil, informally 19 Certain sorority member

20 Who had a major part in the Torah? 21 Behavioral quirk 22 One of the Gilmore Girls

24 [Here we go again …]

25 Titaness who abducted Orion 26 Afghans, e.g. 28 Alternatives to wings 30 Insubstantial 32 Grand total? 33 “Don’t let the bedbugs bite!” 34 “The Magpie” and “The Wheat Field,” for two

35 “De dónde ___?” (Spanish 101 query) 36 Palindromic term of address

39 It raised a major red flag

40 Gene pool? 42 Awesome, slangily 43 Worker whose name anagrams to the person’s output 47 No bueno 48 Portion of an ad agency’s budget 50 Specific

51 Brand with a red star in its logo 52 Spot for some piercings

53 Back to back 54 Home to the world’s tallest steel arch bridge

DOWN

1 Repress, with “up” 2 “Moving on …” 3 Gets to the point? 4 Holst’s “The Planets,” for one 5 “No need to worry,” informally

6 & 7 Disliking, or at least feeling indifferent about 8 Waste at a winery 9 Sumptuous 10 Groups involved in class actions, for short?

11 ___ Technica (tech review site) 12 Bided one’s time 13 Bit of deception 16 Investment banker Samuel 20 Descriptor for a

superhero

23 Period immediately

following Y2K 24 Would you look

at that! 27 Composer of many Streisand show tunes 28 Model-turned-tv

personality Chrissy 29 Six figures, say 30 Hybrid zoo animal

31 Wackadoodle 32 Who said “The greatest scientists are artists as well” 33 “Uh-uh”

34 Bed cover

36 Dark Lord of Mordor, in “The Lord of the Rings”

37 It’s just under a foot 38 Passage that

connects stories 41 Put to sleep 43 Hasenpfeffer, e.g. 44 ___ bar

45 They’re ahead of

their time

46 Leakes of

“The Real Housewives of Atlanta” 49 “What of it?” 50 “The World Is

Yours” rapper, 1994