The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Unwanted items

9 Scoffing response

13 Accomplishment for the

1970s Oakland A’s

14 See 9-Down

15 Didn’t shy away from

16 Rare golf shots

17 Put out

18 About one in three residents of Bosnia

20 “A veil, rather than a mirror,” per Oscar Wilde

21 Let go, in a way

24 Gordon ___, co-star of 1955’s “Oklahoma!”

26 Laughed and laughed and laughed

27 String game

30 19th in a series

31 Bust

32 Neurotransmitter targeted by Prozac

33 There is one each in French, Spanish, Italian, Greek, Hawaiian and Chinook

35 Equivalent of 400 meters, often

38 American jazz pianist, 1904-84

39 Carter creation of 1979

40 Painter Modigliani

41 It once earned the nickname “poudre de succession” (“inheritance powder”)

43 Certain college degs.

44 Deputy ___ (TV toon) 47 The pasta in rasta pasta

48 Canadian fashion brand

50 Does a parent’s bedtime task

53 Bull fan?

54 Thy’re sen n ths cle

55 “Who ___?”

56 Caves

DOWN

1 Odds

2 “Dover Beach” poet

3 “I’m off”

4 “Father ___” (cult Irish comedy)

5 Nail polish brand

6 Poor-drainage areas

7 The stars, so to speak

8 Eye

9 With 14-Across, Shakespearean words after “What’s”

10 Spirits company with a bat in its logo

11 Birthstone after diamond

12 Final participant

13 You’d prefer to have service in it 15 Degree word

19 “In the Heights” setting

22 Big fixtures at parks

23 Cocktail of tequila, lime juice and grapefruit soda

25 James of 1974’s “The Gambler”

28 Vodka brand from Texas

29 Nova ___

31 Treated like a dog, say

32 Ocean liner?

33 Tip of a geographic horn

34 Super ___

35 Singing sisters on “The Lawrence Welk Show”

36 Low 90s

37 Acted nervously, in a way

38 Conniving coteries

39 Not be under the weather

42 2010 World Cup-winning country

45 Blubber

46 Big blow

49 Some choice words

51 One of the 13 original Colonies: Abbr.

52 Alphabet trio