NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Author of “The Witches” and “The Twits”
5 One might be raised by a skeptic 9 Energy sources, of a sort
14 Side opposite 41-Across in a sci-fi clash 16 Bedizen 17 Worked on together 18 Event whose organizers are concerned with brand recognition? 19 Grate stuff 20 “Live” co-host beginning in 2001 21 Pre-commencement activity 22 Skills that not many people know about
25 Steals, slangily 27 Keep off the court? 28 Sticks in water 29 Symbol of San Francisco 33 Promises 37 British pop star who sang 2012’s “R.I.P.”
38 AFC South squad 40 Leak proof?
41 See 14-Across 43 Patches, say 44 School science project involving a vegetable and a voltmeter 48 Faces of the internet? 49 Organic fuel 50 Barb
53 In a relationship 54 Aria, e.g.
56 “Done!”
57 What takes all types? 58 Removes from the mound, in baseball lingo
59 What “M” and “F” are both short for 60 Harper of “No Country for Old Men”
DOWN
1 “Star Trek” character played by 12-Down 2 “That’s the way the cookie crumbles”
3 Place for the self-righteous, metaphorically 4 ___ slip 5 Traditional feature of a Hindu bride 6 ADA-compliant, in a way 7 Expansive 8 Bond
9 First supermodel to produce her own posters and calendars 10 Page-previewing program
11 “The Age of Bronze” artist 12 Actor Spiner 13 Busses near Paddington Station? 15 Certain school clique 21 Literally, “my master”
23 “So sorry, that was totally the wrong thing to say!” 24 Bolshevik’s foe 25 Main ingredient in the curry dish kosha mangsho 26 Curling target
30 Groaner
31 Like most of Mars 32 Freestyles, perhaps 34 Shticks
35 “___ World” (“Sesame Street” segment) 36 Crack, so to speak 39 Stir-fry ingredient 42 Unrelenting 43 Used as a rendezvous point 44 Insignificant 45 Birthplace of Malcolm X
46 Unit of cryptocurrency 47 Adjusts to zero, in a way
51 They might be tapped out 52 Lizzo title lyric repeated three times before “Make a girl go crazy”
54 “How ___ ...” 55 What curly brackets denote, in mathematics