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Fri, Apr 03, 2015 by NYTimes

Across

  1. 1. Knew going in
  2. 8. Sucker
  3. 13. Term ender
  4. 15. Wild lover?
  5. 16. Coming up, informally
  6. 17. Get around
  7. 18. "Michael Collins" actor Stephen
  8. 19. Evans of jazz
  9. 20. Become big after a hit
  10. 22. Bonkers, in Britspeak
  11. 24. Onetime competitor of Mad magazine
  12. 25. Gift that not everyone accepts
  13. 26. Cartman's first name on "South Park"
  14. 27. Place to take an umbrella
  15. 29. Procter & Gamble product line
  16. 30. Trading places
  17. 33. Charlize Theron, e.g., by birth
  18. 34. 1837 short-story collection by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  19. 39. Either Best Director winner of 2007
  20. 40. Without a doubt
  21. 41. Like sea caves
  22. 42. Minute worker
  23. 43. Topps card tidbit
  24. 44. Lauper of pop
  25. 45. Gentleman's agreement?
  26. 47. ___ Jam (old arcade game)
  27. 49. Blackguard
  28. 50. Garden-variety
  29. 51. Person who just can't lose?
  30. 54. It "has very quick ears to an accusation," per Henry Fielding
  31. 55. Now and then
  32. 56. In the right way
  33. 57. Ships with speed

Down

  1. 1. Works at a gallery
  2. 2. Neighbor of four Great Lakes
  3. 3. Encouraging word
  4. 4. Lines of grief?
  5. 5. It's bigger than a quarter
  6. 6. Impressive way to turn up?
  7. 7. Faint
  8. 8. Sassiness
  9. 9. Reason to downshift
  10. 10. It's played close to the chest
  11. 11. Saucer-shaped jellyfish
  12. 12. Wearing a polo shirt and boat shoes, say
  13. 13. Magazine that's on the market?
  14. 14. America : vaudeville :: England : ___
  15. 21. Songwriter with the 1941 autobiography "Father of the Blues"
  16. 23. Presidential candidate who once hosted "Saturday Night Live"
  17. 24. Hit the hay
  18. 27. Firearms company since 1526
  19. 28. People get off on them
  20. 29. "Sweet Rosie ___" (Betty Grable film)
  21. 31. Chain attached to buckets?
  22. 32. One cast in "Jaws"?
  23. 34. Works out
  24. 35. Certain Coast Guard attire
  25. 36. L'Oréal subsidiary
  26. 37. Lives on
  27. 38. Gets around
  28. 39. Iroquois Confederacy tribe
  29. 43. Full of oaths
  30. 44. Social stratum
  31. 46. Site of Santa sightings
  32. 47. Seward Peninsula city
  33. 48. Begat
  34. 52. Sound made with a wince
  35. 53. Some email attachments, informally

This puzzle was published on Friday, Apr 03, 2015 in the New York Times Crossword Puzzle. Edited by Will Shortz.

— NYTimes

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