The New York Times Crossword Puzzle
ACROSS
1 Gold Coast port 6 Grade
10 Certain
hieroglyphs 14 Snacks known as “student fodder” and “scroggin” in Germany and New Zealand, respectively 16 Home of the Starzz, one of the original eight W.N.B.A. teams
17 What few fliers
desire
18 Michael of “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World”
19 Bug expert? 20 Winter Olympics
equipment
21 See 44-Down 22 Old Forester and Old Overholt offerings 23 Ethereum or Bitcoin, for example 25 Shame
27 Site of an underground pool, maybe 28 Get an 800 on
the G.M.A.T., say 29 Animal that comes to shore to lay eggs
32 Bel ___ (Italian
cheese)
33 One of the
Kennedys 34 Single-___ 35 Leftovers from a
doughnut, say 37 Easy twopointer
38 Deep cuts 39 Bad sorts to be stuck talking to at a gathering 40 Savory Scottish
delicacy
41 Go down
42 Drug kingpin on
“The Wire” 43 Coffee spot? 45 Comedian
Margaret 48 Actor who played Senator Vinick on “The West Wing” 49 Historic
Charleston site 51 St. ___, locale in an English nursery rhyme 52 One way to crack
a code
53 Studies
54 “Got it” 55 People
DOWN
1 You can bank on
them
2 “___ Camp,” 2020 Oscarnominated documentary 3 Women’s rights pioneer Elizabeth ___ Stanton 4 Clear
5 Words from
Mission Control 6 Stops lying
7 Cut
8 Things that pique your interest on TV
9 14 billion years, for the age of the universe: Abbr. 10 “You thought
wrong!”
11 Judge unfairly,
say
12 Person in a
contract 13 Bygone
potentate 15 Hockey game highlight, for some 21 Unsatisfactory 22 Begin the
toasting process 24 Zinger
25 Kind of berry 26 Oktoberfest
locale
27 Does a deep dive on a topic, with “out”
28 Inclined
29 They can cause
anxiety
30 Gifts that are
usually scented 31 West end? 36 Bigeye tuna 39 U.S. city that’s home to the largest Basque population outside Spain 40 Split, in a way 41 Tall order? 42 One of eight in “The Twelve Days of Christmas” 44 With 21-Across,
straight up 45 2017 doubleplatinum debut album for SZA 46 “Shucks!”
47 Raw materials 49 Govt. org. whose director serves a 10-year term
50 “How now?,” to a
cow?