NEW YORK TIMES
ACROSS
1 Source of embarrassment for some public officials 10 Skedaddled
15 How buzzkills end things
16 Golfer’s collection 17 Numismatist’s collection
18 Mexican sandwich
19 ___ sample 20 One-named singer with the 2007 #1 hit “Don’t Matter”
21 Building block makeup 22 Essential
24 First U.S. team to win the N.H.L. Stanley Cup (1928)
26 Diner order that gets filled?
28 Life instinct, in psychology
29 Reverses course 32 Ceiling
35 “___ said …”
36 Write a think piece, say
37 Drifter
38 ___ Mosby, main role on “How I Met Your Mother”
39 Some polygamous figures
41 Niche form of architecture?
42 Many workers in Japan’s Lake Hamana 43 Sharp-looking footwear?
48 “The Yankee Years” memoirist
49 Home of the first known pizza parlor 50 Certainty
52 Some undergrad degs. 53 Not just in one’s head, say
54 Kamehameha Day observers
56 Little buddy
57 From that point on 58 Simplifies
59 Cozy curl-up spots
DOWN
1 Verbal outpouring, in slang
2 Dead
3 Sobriquet for filmdom’s Daniel LaRusso, with “The” 4 Common suffix for 7-Downs
5 Areas
6 Ursine sci-fi creature 7 Atom with an electronic imbalance 8 G in jazz
9 Students with 300 and 400 classes: Abbr.
10 Audit, as a class 11 Sticking points 12 One-named singer with the 2013 #1 hit “Royals”
13 Bury
14 Bulgaria’s Simeon I and Simeon II
21 Actress Tia of “Wayne’s World”
23 They have hops
25 Get back together 27 Ones who know the way?
30 Underdog victory
31 “Blue” or “bearded” bird
32 Act without originality 33 Deviation
34 Has hold of 37 Stud poker variation, informally
39 Skimpy swimwear 40 Sloppy planting job? 41 Refer (to) 43 Backstabber
44 ___ al Ghul (Batman foe)
45 Devices that introduced the click wheel
46 Norwegian king until 1000
47 One spreading seed 51 Something that people wish you would take when you leave
54 Noted mansion man, for short
55 Jr.’s son