THE NYT 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