The New York Times Crossword
A-swems below
ACROSS
1 Bands popular in the
’70s
10 Uses a letter opener
on
15 Later on, when appropriate
16 “The Pirates of Penzance” ingénue
17 Is resolute
18 Grammy winner with
the surname Adkins 19 National ___ Hall of Fame, in Rochester, N.Y.
20 Flip, say
21 Esther of TV’s “Good
Times”
22 “Breaking Bad” protagonist
23 Offer sheet? 25 Refresh, in a way 28 “Quit your bickering!” 29 Left on deck 30 Reached the point of
no return?
33 Like many Ariz. residents
34 Fraught with risk 35 Gubernatorial option 36 Snow-capped peak of
song
38 Yellowstone traffic
halters
39 One going paperless
in April, say
40 Gags
41 Once-common mall
fixtures 43 Nut chewed as a stimulant
44 Harshly colorful 45 Certain computer key 47 Face-covering dance
move
50 Star N.F.L. receiver ___
Beckham Jr.
51 “Stoned Soul Picnic”
songwriter 53 Counterpart of butch 54 Language in which “Hello, how are you?” is “Saluton, kiel vi fartas?”
55 Its penultimate line is “Poems are made by fools like me” 56 Franchise with the “Dominating the Deep” DVD set
DOWN
1 Sight in a produce
aisle
2 “I’m ___ you!” 3 Danny ___ , ventriloquist dummy for Jimmy Nelson
4 Pressure over a debt 5 Second or third version
6 “Life ___” (2014 Roger
Ebert documentary) 7 Pester playfully 8 Finance co. rebranded as Ally Financial
“∪” 9 Branch of mathematics “∩” that uses and 10 Brain
11 Classic film that gave us the term “paparazzi”
12 “Pretty sure” 13 Restless movements,
maybe
14 Unwelcome forecast 22 “I & I can’t even” 24 Like presses
25 Certain paddy crop 26 Car with a lightning
bolt logo
27 French dessert of soft
custard
28 Patch growth
30 Things that generate a
lot of cookie dough? 31 Early educator of
George Orwell
32 Dijon denials
34 Course division 37 Some airplane seats 38 Fortification 40 Traditional wedding
vow word
41 Up
42 Showing less refinement
43 Gene who’s considered “the founding father of the modern drum set”
46 Far from deliberate 47 10 micronewtons 48 Museo contents 49 Enter into a calendar 52 “Thanks anyway,
pardner”