The New York Times Crossword
A-swems below
ACROSS
1 Be in charge & as a
doctor?
13 Remains to be seen,
say
14 “Sheesh, just move
on!”
15 One of the knights of
the Round Table
16 Con ___ (musical
direction)
17 Lead-in to some waterdwelling “folk”
18 Car loan nos.
19 How Superman often
poses
21 Galoot
22 Small hybrid instrument with six strings 24 Layperson?
26 Where you may be waited on hand and foot?
27 Make tracks
28 “Where are your
manners!”
29 Player of Julia in “Julie
& Julia”
31 Walk all over the place 34 2008 horror film sequel
36 What frozen foods may do in paper grocery bags
37 “Arthur” airer 40 Visibly dizzy, quaintly 42 One might have a
photographic memory 44 Strengthening crosspiece 45 Disassociate, as with a
Bluetooth device 47 Bears: Lat.
48 D.O.J. V.I.P.s
49 Bass organ 50 Pennsylvania city where the Delaware and Lehigh Rivers meet
52 World Series opener 55 Command to stop
saluting
56 Savory snack in England
DOWN
1 Something absolutely
adorable, with “the” 2 “___ happens &” 3 Bad way to be poisoned
4 Galoot
5 So-called “America’s
Network”
6 “Get what I’m saying?”
7 Like a deaccessioned
book, for short 8 Slangy psychedelic 9 Make tracks, quaintly 10 One with a “Yes we
can” attitude
11 It was once a challenge to eat 12 Compound found in
latex
13 Company at which business always comes before pleasure? 14 Drink from a bowl,
maybe
15 Jokes
20 It’s below belowdecks 23 What one of the Olympic rings represents: Abbr.
25 Word before or after
strong
30 Predate?
31 Polo of TV’s “The
Fosters”
32 Cans
33 Twitch or Yelp
34 River that begins in
the Adirondacks 35 Comment that prompts the reply “Doitashimashite” 36 Bouillabaisse tidbit 38 Chest
39 It’s got you covered 41 Actor profiled in the biography “The Immortal Count” 42 Sensational coverage 43 Historic town NW of London where some of the Harry Potter series was filmed
46 Wild cards in “baseball” poker
51 Working hard
53 Man’s name that’s
also a suffix
54 ___ vapeur (steamed)
todaY’s Clue: V equals Y | The Cryptoquip is a substitution cipher in which one letter stands for another. If you think that X equals O, it will equal O throughout the puzzle. Single letters, short words and words using an apostrophe give you clues to locating vowels. (2-20-21)