new york times crossword

ACROSS

1 Array in ancient battles

7 Hot beverage 11 Bradford and Bradshaw, for two: Abbr.

14 What “It” is

16 New England

state sch. 17 Something tested

at an auto shop 18 Whose tears create the morning dew, in myth 19 Obliterate

20 Until

21 Multitude 22 Multitude 23 Presidential inits. 25 World’s second most populous landlocked country, after Ethiopia 28 Part of many a

business name 29 Deli counter sign 32 Old union

member: Abbr. 33 Text alert? 34 Time for

remembrance 36 Freaking out,

say

38 Scale notes 39 Debugging? 41 Comments like

“Yer joshin’!” 44 Things applied to black eyes, traditionally

45 It doesn’t come

full circle 46 Group in any circle in a Venn diagram 47 Cool, in slang 48 Twerp

51 Friend, in Firenze 53 Eponymous

weapon designer 54 Plow puller 56 Feature of coastal

Louisiana

57 1964 role for

Honor Blackman 58 Wedded

59 “If you ask me …,”

for short

60 How many letters are in the longest answers in this puzzle — or how many of these answers there are

DOWN

1 “Yentl” setting 2 Agatha Christie once described him as a “detestable, bombastic, tiresome little creature” 3 Something to run 4 Symbol of bloodlust

5 Star of TV’s “The Untouchables” 6 Foreign title: Abbr. 7 Go hand to hand? 8 60-Across, to

34-Across, e.g. 9 Explains

10 W.W. II hero

11 Pop icon, to members of her “hive” 12 Expand

13 One of a pair of fraternal twins, maybe 15 Fail

21 Dances done

in 2/4 time

24 The Mediterranean, to ancient Romans 26 1942-43

battle site

27 Cost

30 Pass

31 Chicago’s

___ Center 32 Acting as a

partition

34 Relief for xerosis 35 1/1,000 of a yen 36 Computer addresses, for short 37 Luddite’s opposite, of a sort 40 Dilapidated 41 Polymathic Isaac 42 Words of support 43 Like home, on

rare occasions 49 Opposite of dirty 50 Contingency

phrase

52 What a marker

may mark

53 Subj. of some conspiracy theories

54 Print quality

meas.

55 Museum estimate,

maybe