The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Cheap trick, perhaps 9 Apply pressure to 15 “Stupid me!” 16 Recherché

17 Food, water, a place to

live, etc.

19 Decreases?

20 Who wrote “The poetry of earth is never dead”

21 Drawing method 22 “___ I do!” (informal

assent)

23 Rivals of the 1980s “Showtime” Lakers, to fans

24 Part of a pool 25 Regulation followers,

for short

26 Cuts (down)

27 “Wassup, my dude” 28 Intended

29 Winter slopes activity 30 One born in the wrong

generation, maybe 33 Expands

34 Works with 17 units

35 Like speeders, often 36 Features of some

glasses

37 Wade in the Baseball

Hall of Fame 38 Manhattan campus around Washington Sq. Park

41 Where to set une

couronne 42 Name spelled with six

dashes and six dots 43 Air

44 Where Wonder Wom

an first worked: Abbr. 45 Words of agreement 46 “Gotcha”

47 Soak up the sun, say 50 What I might be in a

lab?

51 Multiheaded dog guarding the gates of the underworld, in myth

52 Features of some

accents

53 James Baldwin, e.g.

DOWN

1 What an aphrodisiac

boosts

2 Eastern lodging 3 North Atlantic island

group

4 Tweak

5 Sweeties

6 Modern “art”

7 Young male chicken 8 Prepared to propose,

perhaps

9 Holds up

10 Greek counterpart of

Discordia

11 See 18-Down 12 “Perfect!”

13 Dealing directly (with) 14 They’re saved for a

rainy day 18 High school alterna

tives to the 11-Down 23 After Kipling, the youngest- ever Literature Nobelist (1957, 44 years)

24 Turn

26 Reverential 27 Historically Germanic

observances

28 Offer to help

29 Shade

30 “You’re such a tease!” 31 It ends after midnight in New York, with “The”

32 Pepsi Max, e.g. 33 Spots for archaeolo

gists

35 As an exception 37 Word with shop, shot

or shape

38 Sushi variety

39 2013 #1 album from

Kanye West

40 Civil disturbance 42 Biblical figure with a

large staff

43 Walk in a leisurely

way

45 Track, say

46 “___: Duets” (2007

country album) 48 Main component of

britannium

49 Invoice info: Abbr.