N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Spelunker’s aid

5 Went (for)

10 Club alternatives

14 Home of the Polka Hall of Fame and Pro Football Hall of Fame

15 Interpret the parts of

16 Line for a sleigh ride

17 Olympics haul of fame?

19 European royal capital

20 Images that are nice and easy to look at

21 Master negotiator

23 Move named for the 19thcentury skater Paulsen

24 Most milquetoast-y

25 Skill for a good physician

29 Heritage

30 Folk rock band with two 1965 #1 hits, with “the”

31 Org. with an Office of Air and Radiation

34 Some Tripadvisor listings

35 Light brown seals

36 “Frozen” character with antlers

37 It’s not the final number: Abbr.

38 Skier’s problem

39 Equanimity

40 Accept things as they are

43 Nurse’s office supply

45 Sassy

46 Sport that made its first Olympics splash in 1904

47 Slot machine bonus

51 Piece of mind?

52 Crawl

54 Stretched out

55 2x

56 International grp. that’s well financed?

57 Pump up

58 Did some crew work

59 Kind of force

DOWN

1 Box on Broadway

2 Shouted greeting

3 Word with air or square

4 “This American Life” and others

5 Led the way

6 Peoplepowered vehicles

7 It helps make waiting easier

8 Common night school class, for short

9 Goes to hell?

10 TV journalist Baldwin

11 Choice made while thinking “ugh”

12 Mahjong set

13 Ungenteel laugh

18 Long dresses

22 You can see right through it

24 On menus, it’s often by the lobster

25 Big wheel at a party?

26 Millennia

27 “Keep on keepin’ on!”

28 Biblical birthday gift

32 Capital of the Philippines

33 Over

35 Doesn’t surrender

36 Charming vulnerability

38 Journalist Ifill who was depicted on a postage stamp in 2020

39 Israeli P.M. between Rabin and Netanyahu

41 Oxymorphone, for one

42 Followed

43 “Downton Abbey” daughter

44 Irrational thing to celebrate?

47 “Not ___!”

48 Follower of Oscar in the NATO alphabet

49 Snacks that drip

50 Head turner

53 Group depicted in the 2015 biopic “Straight Outta Compton”