NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 2017 #1 song whose music video has over 6.5 billion views on Youtube 10 Pedal-operated

instrument 15 Props

16 Good thing for an athlete to bring 17 Rectangle on a staff

18 Brighten

19 Rot

20 Where things are likely to get heated

21 See 46-Down 22 Syrup in a mai tai 24 Over, as an

ailment

27 Plant cultivated

for its juice 28 React to a

stubbed toe 30 Laughable

31 [Oh my God, he’s

so hot!]

32 Two before

48-Down

33 Simple craft

34 A couple

of bucks 35 Coin whose obverse shows King Maha Vajiralongkorn 36 Vacation

destination

37 Ice cream topper 38 What Sally is often informal for

39 Realize 40 Nautical adverb 41 Catchers

of flies

42 Best in Show winner at the 2020 Westminster Dog Show

44 Like some

contraceptives 46 Forest, e.g. 47 Ointment with an

orange label 52 Put on sale, say 53 Freezes

54 Hitting a point of

no return? 55 Tucked in at

night?

56 “High Life” director

Claire 57 Unconscious

DOWN

1 Georgia athlete,

familiarly

2 Nymph cursed by

Hera

3 Watt, e.g.

4 One involved in horseplay?

5 Fish in the herring family

6 Ring figure

7 That is

8 Beta follower 9 Ribs course?

10 I, for one

11 Cry for mercy 12 Cry for mercy 13 Words of

agreement

14 Pairs of fins 23 Animals that 28-Across, informally

24 2006 #1 Chamillionaire hit that begins “They see me rollin’” 25 Good way to get back from an ordeal

26 Words of

agreement 27 Mono no ___,

Japanese term for a gentle sadness at life’s impermanence 29 They’ll take you

places

31 Holder of

miniature blocks 34 Move like

a bear

35 Possible instance of predatory lending

37 Real stinkers, literally and figuratively 38 Classic candy with a biconcave shape

43 Rial spender 44 Fantastic beasts 45 Interpretations 46 With 21-Across, “Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood” co-star

48 I, for Plato

49 It waters the

Boboli Gardens 50 Word usually found between “in” and “of” 51 Place of

commerce