NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Williams who was one of the original Temptations
5 Audible nudge
9 Ones holing up in closets?
14 Where the dish oysters Rockefeller was invented, informally
15 “Fine then!”
17 Got a schoolmate in trouble, maybe
18 Case study?
19 Round trips?
21 Flies
22 Nutritional guideline, in brief
23 Parting word
24 Delicate touch
25 Dinner ___
26 Hard and fast
27 Rebuff
29 Stands
30 Jewelry stores?
34 First track on a soundtrack album, often
35 Common material for a jacket 40 Make murky
41 Passing concern
42 Stuff searched for in vein?
43 Lingering quality
44 Callisto’s animal form, in Greek mythology
46 Voice
48 Certain border
49 Speak softly with contentment
50 Creature whose name comes from the Tswana language
51 Bruce Lee in “Fists of Fury,” for example
54 Parting word
55 Marbled cut
56 Let proceed
57 Unit of magnetic flux density
58 Not again!
59 Prohibition Bureau name
DOWN
1 How beans or cheese are often served in Britain
2 As you like it
3 “All right, you’ve got my interest”
4 Title woman in a 1975 R&B hit by the Spinners
5 Preschool recital
6 R&B artist with the Grammy-winning 2017 hit “Best Part”
7 The “she” of “Nevertheless, she persisted”
8 Ape or parrot
9 Snafu
10 Like Nyquil, in brief
11 1979 film with Bette Midler’s first starring role
12 Cabinet additions
13 Does some lifting
16 Stayed fresh
20 Wax figure?
24 Excited, in modern slang
25 Item in a metalworker’s gun
28 Dark period for Monet
29 Eponym of a European capital, by tradition
31 L’___ (Lalique perfume)
32 Nonbinary possessive
33 “Get ___!”
35 Firm, in a way
36 Male kangaroos
37 Sensationalistic opinion, informally
38 Agamemnon’s son
39 Studies more closely, perhaps 40 Running mate?
44 Cheeks
45 Lyre holder in classical artwork
47 River of Idaho
49 Letter before Quebec in the NATO alphabet
50 Squirt
52 “Cool” amount
53 Big ___