The New York Times Crossword

Answers below

ACROSS

1 Smart

5 Music genre

11 Color akin to steel

14 Grocery brand with an

accent in its name

15 Weight of the Liberty

Bell, approximately

16 Daily newspaper in

Sacramento, Calif.

17 ___ May, Marvel

Comics character

18 Keep away

20 Spotted

22 Tupac’s “___ Gospel”

23 Unit at a bar

24 Brief pause

25 Kind of rocket

26 Ambitious goal or

innovation

30 Suffuse

31 Parent’s command when something almost gets broken by roughhousing siblings

32 Long

33 Some jams

34 Vous ___ (part of a French 101 conjugation)

35 Summer novel,

typically

37 Inebriate

38 Fine film forum

39 ___ Wojcicki, C.E.O. of

Youtube beginning in 2014

40 Floors

41 Scout’s task

42 Title Mrs. played by

Rachel Brosnahan

45 Mood booster

48 Given to giving

50 Language in which

“Dia dhuit!” is “Hello!”

51 Sanctuary for many

couples

52 “Be that as it may …”

53 Pavlov with a Nobel

Prize

54 ___ sauce

55 Execute

56 Displaying

remarkable skill

DOWN

1 “You cannot teach a ___ to walk straight”: Aristophanes

2 Booty

3 “Actually, never mind”

4 Make a long story short

5 “I would never!”

6 Fed the kitty

7 One of a set in an accordion

8 Didn’t go fast?

9 Dazzling

10 Dazzle

11 Give a bad hand?

12 Booty

13 Villain’s foil

19 Line at the door of a

bar

21 Salt or smoke

24 Like umpires,

sometimes

25 Mario Kart contestant

26 “Make Me Feel” singer

Janelle

27 Gets too personal with

zingers, say

28 Greek theater

29 Screen, in a way

30 ___ ghanouj

31 Reckoning

33 Unconditional

condition?

36 “Be that as it may …”

37 Resist

39 Private or public

division

41 Flush

42 Many Chicago Booth

grads

43 Chocolate brand with the slogan “Irresistibubble”

44 Black as night

45 Hang in the balance

46 Org. featured in “Dr.

Strangelove”

47 Bottled (up)

49 ___ Goodman, longtime judge on “Dancing With the Stars”