NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Company that acquired Skype in 2005

5 Help out with Thanksgiving dinner, in a way 10 ___ bowling

14 OK

15 Pirouetting, say 16 Head light?

17 Act casual

19 The Solomon’s lily’s smell of rotting fruit, to flies

20 “The other one!” 21 Hayride seat 22 Today preceder 23 What aspirin can prevent

24 Posture that might be hard to maintain 26 Boo

27 Manhattan purveyor

28 Load

29 “Hold up …” 33 “Don’t move!” 34 Make dough from scratch?

35 “So what?” 36 One-eighty

37 Didn’t stay put, as mascara

38 What an investor hopes for 40 Necklace bit

42 ___ flash 45 Stable youth? 46 Orchestrated performances? 48 It’s shortest at the Equator

49 Buzzes while buzzed?

50 Sclera neighbor 51 Where it’s at 52 “Folded,” in French 53 Comes together 54 Updated, as a kitchen

55 Sizes up

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1 College athletics channel

2 Ties for vaqueros 3 Pigeon pose, for one

4 Opposite of flatline 5 Dark hue named after a type of glassware

6 Dried chili 7 Weaselly animal 8 [Go! The light turned!]

9 Unadon ingredient 10 Mauve relative 11 Excessively admiring

12 “That’s all. Goodbye”

13 When repeated, a 2010s dance move 18 “Might as well try” 21 Uncapped? 24 Accelerated, in a way

25 Destination 26 Angler’s supply 27 Currency whose symbol is a B with a vertical line through it

29 Item often seen in home bathrooms, but rarely in public ones

30 Sebaceous

31 Many a promoter of human rights or voting rights, for short

32 Large Hadron Collider org. 33 Place to store some barrels

34 Word with horse or hero

39 They parallel radiuses

40 In book form 41 World-weary feeling

42 Where the piano was invented 43 “For real!”

44 Jacks are male ones 46 Native Canadian 47 Red, maybe 48 Vibed with 49 Feature of some TVS, for short