NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Behave in a way suitable to one’s situation

11 This might change your mind 14 Five-minute rock classic with an iconic organ intro 15 “___ the mornin’!” 16 In pain at the end of a race, say

17 Like the football field in Australian football

18 Takeoff in pole position, perhaps? 19 Woman with enfants

20 Not online, to a texter

21 Fit to serve? 23 Deceive so as to deflect

27 Seeds may go down in them 29 Flips (over) 30 Model Boyd of London’s “Swinging Sixties” era

31 Be the coolest 32 Product from Jamaica

34 Una y ___ vez (again and again: Sp.) 35 Out

38 Rig up

41 First N.F.L. quarterback to pass for 50,000 yards 42 Course list 43 Ceremonial plates

for the Eucharist 45 Three in Q3, e.g.:

Abbr.

46 Like an unconvincing argument, say 47 “… for instance” 53 Worth one and a

half or two stars 54 Beaver’s display? 55 Fully grasped 56 They’re often worn at long public events

57 Spanish verb that conjugates to “somos” for firstperson plural 58 Take two

DOWN

1 Early song subject 2 Street food source 3 One way up, perhaps 4 Best-selling novelist Hoag 5 Very busy, informally 6 Country where the oldest human skull (circa 1,000,000 B.C.) was found in 1997 7 Aromatic fire feeders

8 Plant that contains chlorophyll but lacks a stem and leaves

9 Put back into service

10 Prepared, as lab findings for a report 11 Hot lines? 12 Remedies for blowouts

13 On the ___

15 Grave matter 22 Pub order, in brief 23 It dots the “i” in the Ohio State marching band’s spelling of “Ohio” 24 Troublemaker 25 “Oh-h-h …!”

26 On a streak? 28 Cast-iron cooking directive

29 Elderly relative, informally

33 Jazzes up

36 Mexico City-tocancún dir.

37 See star? 39 Language spoken in Middle-earth 40 They usually end at the ankle 44 Dolphin’s facility 46 Clicks that aren’t nice to hear 48 Reebok rival 49 Going hard 50 Reebok rival 51 “Have you ___ …?” 52 Inapt locale for this answer