NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Has nowhere to go but

down

6 Scepter topper

9 It's just the wurst! 13 Northernmost land in

the Inner Hebrides 16 Prefix with nautical 17 Cut-and-paste tool for

language learners 19 Piece of sensitive info,

for short

20 Average

21 Name that sounds like

two of its letters 22 Garden figure

25 Stoke

26 What a fitness coach

likely leads 32 One-named rapper with the 2019 video “Can't Explain It” 33 Puts on the line, say 34 Word after dead or

data

35 Browser button 36 Bedouins, e.g.

37 Post-punk sort 38 Squeeze (out) 39 Classic Disney character who never speaks

40 It can come as a relief 41 In-n-out Burger's “Animal Style” burgers and fries, e.g. 44 [Gulp!]

45 Plus

46 Part of a church chorus 47 Theravada or Mahayana vis-à-vis Buddhism

49 Japanese assent

52 Like some headphones 56 People of northeastern

Canada

57 Eagerly starting, as

one's work

58 Streaks on the side of a

wineglass

59 Word that becomes its own synonym if you change its first letter to WI

60 Bring to a boil

DOWN

1 Gluttons

2 Those: Sp.

3 Well overdue

4 Powder holder

5 G, in a C major scale 6 West African food

staple

7 “Star Trek” actress Jeri 8 Big ___

9 In which you might see

an échappé sauté 10 Out of the ordinary

11 Pretentious, in a way 12 The point of 9-Down?

14 Queer designation 15 Instrument played by a

pannist

18 Dr. for kids

23 Daughter of Styx 24 Things sometimes

frozen 25 Requirements with

some applications 26 Can't move a muscle,

say

27 Crack under

pressure

28 Boiling

29 Eponym for a mathematical pattern identified centuries earlier in India

30 “Eh, they can do that”

31 Spirit of a people 36 Range for a viola

37 Box-office revenue 39 Mostaccioli relative 40 Lead-in to male or

female

42 Kind of monkey 43 Hwy. through Fargo

and St. Paul

46 Tops

47 Fly (through)

48 “Our ___ always lasts longer than the happiness of those we ___”: Heraclitus 50 Request a hand, say

51 Composer Stravinsky 52 Love of the game? 53 Their sales were surpassed again by phonograph records in 2020

54 Inits. near New York's

Flushing Bay 55 Jeremy ___, first Asian-american N.B.A. champion