The New York Times Crossword

44 ACROSS

1 Abundant

6 “___ and Basie!” (1963 jazz

album)

10 Calendar heading named for

a Norse deity: Abbr. 13 “Everything’s going to be fine” 14 Bucolic spots

15 Artist colony in a desert 16 Digital color presentation? 18 Vegetable also called “ladies’

fingers”

19 Seriously

20 Colon or semicolon, in an

emoticon

21 “Men in Black” antagonists 22 Long run?

23 Bonny ones

25 ___ Explorer

26 Something that may be

packed

28 Heckerling who directed “Look Who’s Talking” and “Clueless”

29 Courtroom conclusion 32 Comment after an amazing

statement

33 What might be found

between X and Z?

34 Small amphibian

35 Subj. for class cut-ups? 36 Direction of many a lavatory

on a plane

37 One-fourth of KISS

39 Olympic skater Midori

40 ___ Chang, Harry Potter’s

first love interest

43 1982 Disney film with a 2010 sequel

Kitty food? 47 It covers a lot of ground 48 “Walk”

49 Endor native

50 Spirits of Greece

51 Like a tapestry

52 ___ Sarnoff, Warner Bros.

C.E.O. beginning in 2019 53 Participated in a pistol duel 54 They’re full of opinions

DOWN

1 Helicopter traffic reporter on

“The Simpsons”

2 Intended

3 Bends at the Bolshoi

4 [I forgot the words …]

5 Local alternative

6 Actress Pompeo of “Grey’s

Anatomy”

7 Adornments sometimes

made with kukui nuts

8 Hold up

9 Vapers don’t get it

10 Tries chai, say

11 Quartet in Revelation 12 Nation conspicuously missing from the Wilson-proposed League of Nations, in brief 15 Santa’s sleighful

17 How you might count to five 20 Dining with one’s child? 23 Countertop or flooring

materials

24 Children’s author/illustrator

Hoff

25 Problem for a king

26 Cry made while swinging a

baton

27 “Put a tiger in your tank”

sloganeer

29 Roman army leader 30 Cellphone plan concern 31 Card game in which jacks are

the top four trumps

32 Got out of Dodge, say 33 Some kitchen appliances 38 Tennessee governor who

became president

39 “Say no more”

40 Herb often used in preparing

potatoes and omelets 41 Upped

42 Is on first

44 Really come down

45 Move, maybe ominously 46 Take to another dimension? 47 Lead-in to cow or lion 48 Uranus, e.g.