N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

We asked some favorite Times crossword contributors, “What would you like to do in a daily Times crossword that has never been done before? ”This week’s puzzles, Monday to Saturday, are the result.

Across

1 Entry forms 8 You might draw them when answering questions 15 Abstruse knowledge 16 Floating island visited in “Gulliver’s Travels” 17 Barbershop relative 18 Van Gogh masterpiece 19 Sun blocks? 21 Lilliputian, informally 22 Sun 23 Project that analyzes electromagnetic radiation, for short 24 Not check 25 With 39Across, region beyond the Kármán line … or a literal hint to what this puzzle has 27 Part of le visage 28 Weird 30 Weird 32 “I’m ready!” 35 Levy 36 Singer with the 1986 #1 hit “Rock Me Amadeus” 37 Take a ___ 38 ’60s org. 39 See 25-Across 41 Canola oil product 45 Grub 47 Exotic “Now, Voyager” setting 48 Comic strip husband 49 Recurrent “Twilight Zone” plot device 52 Pitch-perfect words? 53 Wonder-working prophet in II Kings 54 Typical Manhattanite 55 Irish equivalent of “Jane” 56 Billy of infomercials 57 Voids, with “out”

Down

1 Valuable things to have in Scrabble 2 It can’t be canned 3 Up this street and down the next, perhaps 4 Hercules or Perseus 5 “Beat it!” 6 Negative conjunction 7 Jungle-themed Halloween costume 8 French metropolis near the Belgian border 9 Man’s name that’s another man’s name in reverse 10 Spots at a casino 11 Setting for many sci-fi stories 12 Is indecisive 13 Old English county court sessions 14 Doesn’t remember, as something obvious, with “on” 20 Bird house 25 Some crumbled dessert toppings 26 W.W. II poster girl 29 Key on a computer keyboard 31 Work with 32 What starter pistols shoot 33 Dolphins’ grp. 34 Explorer born René Robert Cavelier 35 Recesses 37 Willingly, once 40 It may be left at a crime scene 42 Greeting that means “love” or “peace” 43 Unicellular organism 44 Unstamped metal discs used for making coins 46 Creator of Saturn 48 Explanatory words 50 Bread in some ethnic cuisine 51 Winning party in Clay v. United States