NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Office held five times by Julius Caesar

7 Not physically, say 15 Program commemorated on the back of the Eisenhower dollar coin

16 Do some wedding planning 17 Withdraw 18 Preposterous 19 Word with club or queen

20 Stuff, but not junk 21 Where “the cheese stands alone,” in a classic song 22 They’re tops to Scots

23 Lug

25 Faulty: Prefix 26 Grow up

27 Color not generated by light

29 Very nearly resemble

31 Livened (up) 35 Picked up

36 Sushi chef’s tasting menu 37 Literally, “substitute” 38 Midwife’s focus in the third stage of labor

39 Dazzling skill 41 2019 World Series winner, in brief 42 Org. with clubs, in

two senses 45 “Anything!” 46 Veronica ___, author of the “Divergent” trilogy

47 Orange candleflower, for example 49 “Mastering the Art of French Cooking,” for one

50 Expert with picks 51 “Whatever

you say …”

53 ___ chai (Indian

beverage)

54 Short hooking pitch

55 Eventually 56 Herbalists’

panaceas

57 Muscle connectors

DOWN

1 Setting for drinks and deals

2 Met someone? 3 Policy around the publicity-shy, say 4 In-verse functions? 5 It runs up the arm 6 Offering for a developer

7 Capital of ancient Persia

8 In an elegant way 9 Canny 10 Campaign fundraising letters 11 “That ___ love thee, Caesar, O, ’tis true”: Shak.

12 Tore

13 Where 23-Down

was coined 14 Flushes, e.g., in

poker

20 Gloucester

catch

23 The art of appearing effortlessly nonchalant 24 Institution roughly

two millennia old 27 Submitted

28 It started in 1964 as Blue Ribbon Sports

30 Allure

32 Salvo from Old

Ironsides

33 Acts of will? 34 Sci-fi effects that are beyond stunning

36 Source of some

nostalgia

38 Many human

anatomy students 40 Unlikely to

pontificate, say 42 Some ribbons and

shells

43 Congee, e.g. 44 Coming in waves, in

a way

46 Up now

48 Barrier against burrowers

50 Digital job, in brief

52 Match

53 1-12: Abbr.