THE NYT CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Toilet paper? 9 Having many openings

14 Powerful Russian 15 Fancy affair 16 Coca- Cola product since 2001

17 Cafe chain

18 “O. G. Original Gangster” rapper 19 Overly sentimental writers

21 Junípero ___, founder of San Francisco

23 Arizona athlete, for short

24 Media co. led by the Sulzberger family 25 Events with tents 27 Really bugged 29 Airer of Neil deGrasse Tyson’s “StarTalk” 30Become edible 34 Kind of coordination 36 Be charged 37 Touristy area on the Irish coast

39 Wiccan groups 40 Balkan capital 41 Things held in a cannonball

42 Place to watch a race, for short

45 Tony once nominated for an Emmy

47 ___ May Lester of Erskine Caldwell’s “Tobacco Road” 49 Vitamin- rich green side dish

52 Setback

53 ___ center 54 Popular vodka brand from Holland 56 Front spoiler on a car

57 Like many people on January 1

58 Fancified 59 Spaces out

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1 Pueblo Revolt participants

2 1930-’ 40s film star with the signature song “You’ll Never Know” 3 Unshackles

4 Cause associated with the rainbow flag 5 ___ Americana 6 Newspaper section 7 Provincetown catch 8 Weekly Jewish observance

9 Request for backup? 10 Isn’t bad?

11 Fancify oneself 12 Commodore in Sondheim’s “Pacific Overtures”

13 Passover no- no 15 Thyme keeper? 20 Suddenly took notice 22 Feature in a telephone directory

26 Any man or boy, biblically

28 Collection of posts about a trip

29 Part of 24- Across 31 Million- selling 1977 Donna Summer song 32 Many a

British retiree

33 Some tech grads, for short 35 Sombrero, e. g. 38 Ethnic group whose name means “wanderers” 42 The planets, e. g. 43 Gateway of a Shinto shrine 44 Get on

46 Fox Islands resident

48 They have mouths 50 Spiral- horned antelope 51 Italian source of smoke

55 ___ salad