The New York Times Crossword
Answers below
ACROSS
1 Barely keeping up
with things, say 10 Group featured on many “Sesame Street” episodes
14 Look down on something?
16 Suckling site 17 Starter’s follower 18 Home for a Hogarth or a Constable, with “the”
19 Word with twenty-or
thirty20 Robust
21 Medium state
23 Name that’s an anagram of both 16-and 18-Across
24 Key
25 M.L.B.’s oldest continuously operating franchise, established as the Boston Red Stockings in 1871 28 One watching the
kids?
29 Drew
30 Causes of puckering 31 “My man!”
32 “___ Ordinary Man”
(“My Fair Lady” tune) 33 Binary code snippets 34 Scott of “See Dad
Run”
35 Aristocrat, in British
slang
36 They’re broken at
marathons 37 Unit of magnetic flux 38 Doesn’t travel, say 40 Bacchanalian beasts 41 Congresswoman who once served in the U.S. cabinet
42 Item for a croupier 43 Chain with a loaf of
bread in its logo 44 Starburst?
45 Engine speed inits. 48 Mount near Olympus 49 Means of devastation
on “Game of Thrones” 52 Level
53 Fantabulous
54 One week, for many
beach house rentals 55 Just barely reacts
DOWN
1 ___ pants
2 Text notification before a time stamp 3 Like much of Arizona 4 Cab alternative
5 Went cruising, say 6 Puffs up
7 It’s down in the
mouth
8 “Your majesty” 9 Confirmation
10 Online action symbolized by a paper clip 11 Collectible from what’s been called the world’s first internet sensation 12 Claw-proof crate 13 Hefty barriers to entry 15 Spineless sorts, metaphorically
22 Hazards for rural
travel
23 Level
24 Traffic directors 25 Shortcomings
26 “I heard &”
27 It’s east of the Horn of
Africa
28 Flight board column 30 Like go-getters 33 Burns’s “The Soldier’s
Return” and others 34 “La Belle et la ___”
(French fairy tale) 36 Bit of a lift
37 Fictional land in the highest-grossing film of 2018
39 Like one’s eyes after a
poor night’s sleep 40 Doesn’t inhale, say 42 Substitute teacher? 44 Where many stop and
smell the rosés 45 Completely ready 46 They’re low on the
food chain
47 No more than
50 Chafe
51 Goal of a diversion