The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Wave one’s arms?
9 Maker of some replacement heads
14 Lose focus, in a way
15 Sight from (Maui’s west shore
16 Classic song with the line “Give him a lonely heart like Pagliacci / And lots of wavy hair like Liberace”
17 “The same”
18 Fan belt?
19 Headache
20 Load off
21 Not totes
23 Mire
24 Repeated voice role for Steve Carell
25 Lacking zip?
27 “Duke” for Marmaduke
28 Item on a library shelf
29 Sarcastic “Oh, like you thought of that yourself”
32 “Who’s with (me?”
34 Horizontal group hug session
35 Code with tags
36 Like some telephone nos.
37 What “chicken” and “egg” are examples of
41 Philanthropist Broad
42 Polaroid’s SX-70 camera, for one: Abbr.
43 Traffic marker
44 Ragtag
46 Best- selling sports
video game franchise
49 Bank in London, for example: Abbr.
50 West Point grad, informally
51 Animal that can grow up to 3,000 teeth in its lifetime
53 Child’s play
54 “I’ve heard enough”
55 Ones making the rounds?
56 Final act
DOWN
1 Home to Museum Island
2 Begrudge
3 Tube letters
4 Ne plus ultra
5 Bro
6 Watson and others
7 Something found under a mattress
8 Female salmon
9 Hoary
10 Inveigh (against)
11 Sophocles heroine
12 “Peace, bro”
13 Algae, at times
14 Draw on, in a way
20 Goes back to the beginning
22 Alpine folk dress
23 Supercapacitor unit
26 With gusto
27 Washington nickname
28 Of the moment
30 Outcast
31 Setting for Melville’s “The Encantadas”
32 Live a little
33 Words on a ticket
34 Place where students can find solutions
38 Charles ___, artist whose bust of M.L.K. Jr. was the first image of an African American displayed at the White House
39 The end of Wikipedia?
40 Ostinato provider in Ravel’s “Boléro”
42 Oozes
45 “Not so!”
46 Imperfection
47 Slavic form of Elijah
48 Member of the world’s happiest people, per repeated World Happiness Reports
51 Something of your neighbor’s not to covet, per the Ten Commandments
52 Te-___ (Mexican cigar brand)