The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across 1 Many a museum dinosaur display 8 Suited to the stage 15 What a telemarketer often hears before a click 17 Reward in the offing? 18 Three in a match, maybe 19 Covent Garden area 20 Taking some doing 23 Stains 27 Bleed (for) 31 Probably will 32 Back 40? 34 Nonstarter’s lack 36 Threaten collapse 37 The Cherokee deemed it good training for war 38 Masters 39 Like Lennon/ Mccartney songs 40 Checked the meter? 42 Provider of up-to-theminute info? 45 Follower of blood and guts 49 Might just 53 Scottie 54 Homemakers out on a limb? 55 Site of the first British colony in the Caribbean, 1624
Down 1 Leap-the-___ (world’s oldest operating roller coaster) 2 Hungary’s ___ Nagy 3 Doing the job 4 Huge-taloned menaces 5 Put down 6 Parmesan pronoun 7 Name meaning “grace” 8 Heroic son of Prince Anchises 9 Mustard family member 10 Easily snapping 11 He got a tennis scholarship from U.C.L.A. 12 Old bomber 13 Fat part 14 Reds great Roush 16 Traitors’ Gate locale 20 Present 21 Senior 22 1930s film dog 23 Mandates 24 “___ signo vinces” (Constantine I’s motto) 25 29-Down, forone 26 Two are often put in 27 “My Fair Lady” setting 28 Where to feel the beat? 29 Its capital is Wiesbaden 30 European city whose name sounds like two letters of the alphabet 32 Shameful gain 33 Nose-burning 35 Like much lumber 39 “The Last of the Mohicans” craft 40 Strawberry is one 41 One engaged in bucket-making 42 Toots 43 St. ___, Cornwall 44 Frobe who played Goldfinger 45 Sign letters on the cross 46 Execute a 47-Down, e.g. 47 See 46-Down 48 Rocky outcrops 49 China’s ___ dynasty 50 Affliction aka “blue devils” 51 Strawberry was one 52 Chafe