New York Times Crossword Answers Saturday, October 22 2016

Here are the answers to New York Times Crossword puzzles Saturday, October 22 2016
17-Across, to the self-titled “Bo Diddley” – BSIDE
1955 R&B hit for Bo Diddley – IMAMAN
1974 National Book Award winner by Thomas Pynchon – GRAVITYSRAINBOW

41-Across is a topic in it, briefly – BIO
A place antelope lope – VELDT
Aid in studying a culture – TESTTUBE
And how! – YOUREDARNTOOTIN
Berth place – PIER
Betes noires – BANES
Breeze (along) – SAIL
Buff – MAVEN
Car payment? – TOLL
Cleopatre artist – ERTE
Coat – ENROBE
Court position – PLEA
Daughter and half sister of Oedipus – ISMENE
Davis of film – GEENA
Design info – SPECS
Directory listings: Abbr. – NOS
Dump – STY
End of a lap – KNEE
Equipment for a rock band – DRUMSET
Four-time N.B.A. scoring champion in the 2010s – DURANT
Free of shampoo, say – RINSEOUT
Front-and-center section – VIOLAS
Gewgaw – BAUBLE
Golfer nicknamed Long John – DALY
Huh … never mind then – GUESSNOT
ID – CARD
Interruption of service? – NET
It has a Marxist-Leninist ideology – LAOS
It operates Hamburger U. – MICKEYDS
Kittenish – COY
K’ung Fu-___ – TSE
Language akin to Yupik – INUIT
Lift one’s spirits? – IMBIBE
Like fringe festival fare – EDGY
Like many offshore rescues – AIRSEA
Live – ONSTAGE
Maugham’s title girl of Lambeth – LIZA
Model material – BALSA
One of “the highest form of literature,” per Hitchcock – PUN
One who goes on to try to conquer the Universe? – MISSUSA
Oscar winner before “Grand Hotel” – CIMARRON
Parades, with “out” – TROTS
Played first – OPENED

Prefix with village – ECO
Really put one’s foot down – STOMP
Repute – ODOR
Ri-i-ight – SURESURE
Rollback events – EBBTIDES
Rugby rival of Harvard – MCGILL
Shared computer syst. – LAN
Shows a preference – LEANS
Shut (up) – PENT
Squeaker – CLOSEONE
Start, in a way – BOOTUP
Still matter? – BOOZE
Subterranean scurrier – SEWERRAT
Suspicion – IDEA
They may reduce sentences, for short – EDS
They’re “made by fools like me,” per Kilmer – POEMS
Took care of – RAN
Tough nut to crack – ENIGMA
Translation material – RNA
Unhand or disarm? – MAIM
Uses without sharing, in slang – BOGARTS
Vessel opener – STENT
Visiting only a short time – INANDOUT
Was reckless, in a way – SPED
Website used by a lot of artisans – ETSY
What there often is for improvement – ROOM