NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 “You might be asking too much” 16 Rhyming educational proverb

17 Classic 1959 drama with characters from Chicago’s South Side

18 Begin all over

19 Tillis or McDaniel of country music 20 Meditation utterances

21 “The Waste Land” poet’s inits. 22 Went back for more, in a way

26 Blew the budget

34 Llama, for one

35 Pastries similar to long john doughnuts 36 Attending a lecture, say

37 Daily

38 Big brand of kitchenware

39 Cough syrup amt.

40 Big Apple?

43 Iridescent material

47 Golfer Aoki

51 African capital where Berber is spoken 53 15 years before the Battle of Hastings 54 Coped (with)

55 Where people may order push-ups 58 D.C. thoroughfare with the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum

59 Must

60 Freddy Krueger, e.g.

DOWN

1 Squad

2 Not halal, in Arab cuisine

3 Follower of “pat” in Mother Goose

4 Peter ___, co-founder of PayPal

5 One of Sports Illustrated’s two Sportsmen of the Year in 1998

6 “It’s not ___, it’s a when”

7 Length of the final fight in “Rocky Balboa”

8 On time, in Tijuana

9 Stat for a photographer 10 Wooden strip

11 Phil who described himself as a “singing journalist”

12 “Gone With the Wind” name 13 South Indian pancakes 14 Accustom

15 Dollars for quarters

22 “It’s not the end of the world” 23 Motion picture pioneer

24 Pump up

25 Bad mark

26 Lab subj.

27 Attracted to people of all genders, in modern lingo

28 Rival of Regal Cinemas

29 Made a move

30 Some Secret Service wear

31 Writer who said “Living never wore one out so much as the effort not to live” 32 Mrs., abroad 33 Non-Anglophone’s course, for short 40 N.F.L. Hall-of-Famer Michael

41 New Brunswick neighbor 42 Choices on a standard Scantron test 44 ___ acid

45 Decked out

46 Hillocks

48 Woman’s name meaning “princess” 49 Motrin alternative

50 Weasel family member

52 “… max”

54 Numerical prefix

56 Out of the game: Abbr.

57 Show featuring Leslie Jones, for short