The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Abundant

6 “___ and Basie!”

(1963 jazz album) 10 Calendar heading named for a Norse deity: Abbr. 13 “Everything’s going to

be fine”

14 Bucolic spots

15 Artist colony in a

desert

16 Digital color presentation?

18 Vegetable also called

“ladies’ fingers” 19 Seriously

20 Colon or semicolon, in

an emoticon

21 “Men in Black” antagonists

22 Long run?

23 Bonny ones

25 ___ Explorer 26 Something that may

be packed 28 Heckerling who directed “Look Who’s Talking” and “Clueless” 29 Courtroom conclusion 32 Comment after an

amazing statement 33 What might be found

between X and Z? 34 Small amphibian 35 Subj. for class cutups?

36 Direction of many a

lavatory on a plane 37 One-fourth of KISS 39 Olympic skater Midori 40 ___ Chang, Harry Potter’s first love interest

43 1982 Disney film with

a 2010 sequel

44 Kitty food?

47 It covers a lot of

ground

48 “Walk”

49 Endor native

50 Spirits of Greece

51 Like a tapestry

52 ___ Sarnoff, Warner Bros. C.E.O. beginning in 2019

53 Participated in a pistol

duel

54 They’re full of opinions

DOWN

1 Helicopter traffic reporter on “The Simpsons”

2 Intended

3 Bends at the Bolshoi 4 [I forgot the words &] 5 Local alternative 6 Actress Pompeo of

“Grey’s Anatomy” 7 Adornments sometimes made with kukui nuts

8 Hold up

9 Vapers don’t get it 10 Tries chai, say 11 Quartet in Revelation 12 Nation conspicuously missing from the Wilson-proposed League of Nations, in brief 15 Santa’s sleighful 17 How you might count

to five

20 Dining with one’s

child?

23 Countertop or flooring

materials

24 Children’s author/illustrator Hoff 25 Problem for a king 26 Cry made while swinging a baton

27 “Put a tiger in your

tank” sloganeer 29 Roman army leader 30 Cellphone plan concern

31 Card game in which jacks are the top four trumps

32 Got out of Dodge, say 33 Some kitchen appliances

38 Tennessee governor who became president

39 “Say no more”

40 Herb often used in preparing potatoes and omelets

41 Upped

42 Is on first

44 Really come down 45 Move, maybe ominously

46 Take to another dimension?

47 Lead-in to cow or lion 48 Uranus, e.g.