NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Warts and all
5 Drug that’s “dropped”
8 Baking abbr.
11 Long, easy stride
12 Formally reject
13 Many stuffed cat toys
14 Like much Cajun chicken
16 Literature Nobelist born in French Algeria
17 Sprinkle in
18 Like a quarter moon tide
19 Most reserved
20 Thoughtprovoking
22 Tuscan red wines
24 Take in, as a breath
25 Hoosegow
26 Some whiskeys
27 React like a startled horse
28 Scottish “John”
31 What memories are recounted in
33 “Cum On Feel the Noize” band, 1973
35 Rx writers
36 Food, informally
37 Caught some congers
38 Wound stinger
39 In the manner of
40 Hard patterns to break ... or a punny description of the climbs up the circled letters
46 “Tony n’ ___ Wedding” (Off Broadway hit)
47 Mourned a death, in Judaism
48 Three-week bike race, such as the one featured in this puzzle
50 Fire remnant
51 Dug up
52 Fraction of a joule
53 Brings in
54 Hot ___ (winter quaff)
55 How to become a whole new hue
56 Little twerp
DOWN
1 Duchess of ___ (Goya subject)
2 “You’ve convinced me!”
3 Device identifier, in computing
4 Moment, informally
5 Singer/activist Horne
6 Aerobic exercise option
7 Pentagon org.
8 Segment of this puzzle’s race
9 “Pardon me,” in Pisa
10 Nuisances
12 Prez’s proxy
13 Where many Penobscot and Passamaquoddy live
15 Didn’t just think
16 Typical ending point for this puzzle’s race
19 Actor Liu
21 90 degrees, say
23 Member of the genus Lepus
24 Group of two
25 Mailed
26 Rotation meas.
27 One eschewing rose-tinted glasses
29 Summer refresher
30 Composer Rorem
32 Box filled with bags
34 Cloris ___, Emmy-winning actress on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”
38 Went against the Word
39 Facade
40 Food item, quaintly
41 Loan shark’s “business”
42 Base boss, informally
43 Book in a biblioteca
44 Occasion
45 ___-CoV-2 (virus that causes Covid- 19)
46 Group of three
48 Clock-setting standard: Abbr.
49 British ref.