NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Beaming

10 Sounds of melodrama

14 Wind up alone? 15 Mideast capital 16 Fuzzy exotic pet 17 Performed by the whole ensemble, in music

18 Ruler often seen in a robe

19 Classified in levels 21 Word with tie or fly 22 Sign by a highway exit

23 Hens, but not roosters

24 Big container 25 Yoga pose with arms extended and legs folded over the head

27 Where a flask might be kept 28 High-speed commuter option 30 Court ruling?

31 Like the Lilliputians 32 Trend for unengaged employees

35 Twist

36 O, on a letter

37 Hall mate? 38 Social media influencer Addison ___

39 Stephen Sondheim’s “The Worst ___ in London” 40 Frequent conspiracy subject 41 Pops

43 Invention originally used as a yellow dye, in brief 44 Baby bat

47 The Traveling Wilburys or Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young

50 Track selection 51 Conceited sorts 52 In concert 54 Match up

55 It makes a spin around a dance floor

56 Disdainful sounds 57 One-sided dice?

DOWN

1 Caption in a comparison ad 2 “Me ___ ...” (Spanish for “My name is ...”) 3 Sensational

4 Lead

5 “___ Explain Things to Me,” influential 2014 essay collection by Rebecca Solnit 6 Question of legitimacy

7 “___ and the Good Book” (1958 jazz album)

8 Monthly with a palindromic name 9 Fly

10 Like some teenagers and pasta

11 At stake 12 DC Comics weapons, one of which can be seen at the Smithsonian 13 Passes with ease 15 Suck it! 20 Overwhelming and needing time for consideration

22 It’s a blast

24 Facial concealer 25 Good words, so to

speak

26 Natural necklace 28 These might help people take deep breaths

29 Bacon or pancetta 31 One of the Jackson

brothers

33 “___ pasa?”

34 First president to

own a car 35 Grumpy toward 39 Break into bits 42 Gives (out) 43 Southern city that was once home to Black Wall Street 44 Philippine island

that’s home to Iloilo 45 Scrooge, to Donald

Duck

46 Some spa

treatments 48 Exposure units 49 Lena of “Alias” 50 Place for a ring 53 Place for a ring