The New York Times Crossword
No. 1208
ACROSS
1 Boatloads or
truckloads
10 Question suggesting “What odd behavior!”
12 Gains ground
14 Worker’s end-ofyear wish
15 Pitiful
16 Figure whose name derives from the Hebrew for “adversary”
18 Areas to practice
driving skills
20 Middle of
Middlesex
21 Taproom offering,
in brief
22 Output of the world’s largest manufacturer of musical instruments
26 Canadian N.H.L. team, on scoreboards 27 1977 best-selling novel set in a hospital
29 Broke
30 Artist of “La Maja Desnuda” and “La Maja Vestida”
31 Five-time N.B.A. All-Star Thompson
32 Words that
guide
33 Uber ___
34 Join so as to
work together
35 Third mostspoken language in the world
36 Slips
37 “___ does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from ___”: Jeanne Moreau 38 Stockpiles
40 Get even with 41 Famous bridge site
43 Not allowing for variation 45 Payment option 46 What a nod might indicate 49 Investor’s considerations 50 What old memories often cause 53 Made ’em look 54 Preservers of crop biodiversity
DOWN
1 [So what?]
2 Kiddie ride?
3 Utterance with one’s hand on a Bible, maybe
4 Comics sound
effects
5 City east of
Tempe
6 Abbr. below the name of some businesses
7 Highest degree
attainable?
8 Defenses are prepared for them
9 Pioneer in the field of exobiology
10 “You sure about
that?”
11 Drawers on
chests, maybe
12 “Stop complaining. I didn’t do anything wrong”
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13 Bouncing a penny into a cup, fancily shuffling cards, etc.
14 Indianapolis 500 venue, informally, with “the”
17 Balance sheet quantity
19 Jazz sobriquet
20 Ones helping players get a round? 23 Song title in both “The Sound of Music” and “West Side Story”
24 Certain verbal
agreements
25 Regards
28 Certain verbal
agreement
30 “How about that!”
38 What’s going on?
39 Barely run
42 Cartoon character often seen sucking his thumb
44 They contain fruit 46 Gave rise to
47 Entertainment reference that began as a Usenet group
48 ___ Amendment (2010s extension of the Kyoto Protocol)
51 Tip jar item
52 All House speakers until 2007