Edmonton Journal

NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

- EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ

ACROSS

1 Billboard magazine

feature

6 Abbr. in skin care 9 Creatures with asymmetric­al ears for accuracy in hunting 13 Facts-as-fiction work 16 Some summer arrivals

17 “Join the club!” 18 World's best-selling contempora­ry female artist of all time, per Billboard magazine 19 “Who ___?”

20 “So … who wants in on

this deal?”

22 Snag

23 Alongside

24 Children in Vienna 26 Costume that might start with a cardboard box

28 Two cents for a paper,

perhaps

30 Body with a floor 31 Orchestral instrument that doesn't make a sound

32 Extension ___

33 Pass (out)

34 Trinket

36 Unpolished

37 One might be chosen

for its perspectiv­e 38 Loafers

40 Like hair at salons

42 Bad side

43 Data head? 44 Drummed-up

measures? 47 Seasoned rice dish 50 Make a big stink

52 Blue book alternativ­e 54 Actress Sink of

“Stranger Things” 55 Say goodbye to many a 34-Across à lamarie Kondo

56 Prunes

57 Destiny's Child's “___

My Name”

58 Was appealing?

59 Some time

DOWN

1 Newmark with an eponymous list 2 Series of stakes 3 “Truer words were never spoken!”

4 Word from the Dutch for “talk nonsense” 5 “Claws” channel

6 Trail

7 One way to avoid a lecture

8 Experience­d

9 Bygone

10 Makes very uncomforta­ble, informally

11 They may be tied up in a sequel 12 W-2 ID

14 Are in store

15 Didn't come through as promised, in slang

21 Not be serious 23 Given (to)

25 Garden tool 27 Summons before

congress?

29 More

sententiou­s

31 Group with the 2020

#1 album “Be” 32 Country whose official languages are French and Arabic

33 Be superinfat­uated

with someone

35 Jazz great Laine 36 What a bee may be 39 “To All the ___ I've Loved Before” (2018 film)

41 Hoist, redundantl­y 44 Given a number,

maybe

45 Press, e.g.

46 Oozing smarm

47 Fills with fluff

48 One may be floated or

rough

49 Liu of “Why Women

Kill”

50 Coronation, e.g.

51 –

53 Card display?

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