The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Finishing-line cry?
6 Guinness with an Oscar
10 Thigh muscle,
informally
14 Beginning to happen
15 Result of a normal
distribution
17 Tickets
18 Long ones can be
measured in centuries
19 Is short
20 “Fingers crossed!”
21 Recruit
23 Outbuilding that’s sometimes converted into a dwelling
24 Capacious
25 Minds one’s own
business
29 Things a mysophobe is
afraid of
30 Some bonds, for short
31 Tiny messenger
32 Ending with electro
33 Quack grass and
others
34 Award quartet
35 “Wow!”
36 College figures
37 Onetime Swedish
exports
38 Begins to believe
40 Extra-crispy, to put it
nicely
41 IBM component: Abbr. 42 Midweek milestone
44 Crush cans, maybe
48 Give an edge to
49 Perseverance, e.g.
50 ___ Gandhi, longestserving president of the Indian National Congress
51 In science fiction, suspended animation of a body at a very low temperature
52 Kind of office tray
53 Name written with an
accent in Irish English
54 Estimating words
55 Heading in a contract
DOWN
1 Some striped strips
2 Lead-in to some unsolicited advice
3 Striking
4 Ends a vacation
5 Extra play opportunities, in brief
6 Hoffman who wrote “Revolution for the Hell of It”
7 Island rings
8 National dogs of Norway
9 Flowering plant such as “old man’s beard”
10 Participates in a bee,
maybe
11 Language that’s
mutually intelligible with Hindi
12 Opposite of “sans”
13 Secretary, e.g.
16 Families and waves
might have them
20 Tongue-in-cheek
22 Quick notes, quickly
25 Good, in Guadalajara
26 Driver’s license
designation
27 Mined compound in
the “Avatar” universe
28 Ink spots, for short
29 Lump
30 “Where’s the beef?”
inquirer?
33 Broke up a band, say
34 Modern meeting aid
for many
36 Greasy spoons
37 Word with dim
39 Nurses
40 Part of an urban fleet
42 Sofia’s husband in
“The Color Purple”
43 Poet who wrote “I have spread my dreams under your feet / Tread softly because you tread on my dreams”
44 Some pickups
45 Like a Buffalo nickel
46 Maisie Williams’s role
on “Game of Thrones”
47 Edges of a diamond?
50 Pose