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