NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Boatloads or truckloads 10 Question suggesting “What odd behavior!” 12 Gains ground 14 Worker’s end-ofyear wish
15 Pitiful
16 Figure whose name derives from the Hebrew for “adversary”
18 Areas to practice
driving skills 20 Middle of
Middlesex 21 Taproom offering,
in brief
22 Output of the world’s largest manufacturer of musical instruments 26 Canadian N.H.L. team, on scoreboards
27 1977 best-selling novel set in a hospital
29 Broke
30 Artist of “La Maja Desnuda” and “La Maja Vestida” 31 Five-time N.B.A.
All-star Thompson 32 Words that guide 33 Uber ___
34 Join so as to work
together
35 Third most-spoken language in the world 36 Slips
37 “___ does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from ___”: Jeanne Moreau 38 Stockpiles
40 Get even with 41 Famous bridge site 43 Not allowing for variation 45 Payment option 46 What a nod might indicate 49 Investor’s considerations 50 What old memories often cause 53 Made ’em look 54 Preservers of crop biodiversity
DOWN
1 [So what?] 2 Kiddie ride? 3 Utterance with one’s hand on a Bible, maybe 4 Comics sound effects
5 City east of Tempe 6 Abbr. below the name of some businesses 7 Highest degree attainable? 8 Defenses are prepared for them
9 Pioneer in the field of exobiology 10 “You sure about that?” 11 Drawers on chests,
maybe
12 “Stop complaining. I didn’t do anything wrong”
13 Bouncing a penny into a cup, fancily shuffling cards, etc. 14 Indianapolis 500 venue, informally, with “the” 17 Balance sheet
quantity
19 Jazz sobriquet 20 Ones helping players get a round?
23 Song title in both “The Sound of Music” and “West Side Story” 24 Certain verbal
agreements 25 Regards
28 Certain verbal
agreement
30 “How about that!” 38 What’s going on? 39 Barely run 42 Cartoon character often seen sucking his thumb
44 They contain fruit 46 Gave rise to 47 Entertainment reference that began as a Usenet group
48 ___ Amendment (2010s extension of the Kyoto Protocol) 51 Tip jar item
52 All House speakers
until 2007