New york times crossword

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