NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD

No. 0204

ACROSS

1 Smart

5 Music

genre

11 Color akin

to steel

14 Grocery brand with an accent in its name

15 Weight of the Liberty Bell, approximately 16 Daily newspaper in Sacramento, Calif.

17 ___ May, Marvel Comics character

18 Keep

away

20 Spotted

22 Tupac’s “___ Gospel”

23 Unit at a

bar

24 Brief

pause

25 Kind of

rocket

26 Ambitious goal or innovation 30 Suffuse

31 Parent’s command when something almost gets broken by roughhousing siblings

32 Long

33 Some

jams

34 Vous

___ (part ofa French 101 conjugation) 35 Summer novel, typically

37 Inebriate

38 Fine film

forum

39 ___ Wojcicki, CEO of Youtube beginning in 2014

40 Floors

41 Scout’s

task

42 Title Mrs. played by Rachel Brosnahan 45 Mood

booster

48 Given to

giving

50 Language in which “Dia dhuit!” is “Hello!”

51 Sanctuary for many couples 52 “Be that as

it may ...” 53 Pavlov with a Nobel Prize

54 ___ sauce 55 Execute

56 Displaying remarkable skill

DOWN

1 “You cannot teach a ___ to walk straight”: Aristophanes

2 Booty

3 “Actually, never mind”

4 Make a long

story short 5 “I would

never!”

6 Fed the

kitty

7 One of a set in an accordion

8 Didn’t go

fast?

9 Dazzling

10 Dazzle

11 Give a bad

hand?

12 Booty

13 Villain’s

foil

19 Line at the door of a bar 21 Salt or

smoke

24 Like umpires, sometimes 25 Mario Kart contestant 26 “Make Me Feel” singer Janelle

27 Gets too personal with zingers, say

28 Greek

theater

29 Screen, in a

way

30 ___ ghanouj 31 Reckoning 33 Unconditional condition? 36 “Be that as it may ...” 37 Resist 39 Private or public division

41 Flush

42 Many Chicago Booth grads

43 Chocolate brand with the slogan “Irresistibubble”

44 Black as

night

45 Hang in the

balance

46 Org. featured in “Dr. Strangelove” 47 Bottled (up) 49 ___ Goodman, longtime judge on “Dancing With the Stars”