NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 ___ Blackburn, Tennessee’s first female senator
7 Stay-at-homes?
13 They may be iced for a hoppy birthday party
15 Maker of sweet eggs
16 “In a Silent Way” trumpeter [~3:5]
18 Mohammed bin Thani was the first one for Qatar
19 Amazingly enough
20 ___ Annie of “Oklahoma!”
21 Rendezvous (with)
22 Stumblebum
23 Word with shot or happy
24 Close
25 Some unaccredited universities, derisively [~57:1]
28 Singer Amos
30 Animal whose teeth are the strongest substance in the natural world
31 Makeup shades that match skin tones
34 Robotics motor
36 Eves’ counterpart
38 1947’s ___Hartley Act
40 Hardly parsimonious, in a saying [~1:454]
45 Steal
47 “Ratatouille” protagonist
48 It may be iced for a happy birthday party
49 People based in Kykotsmovi Village, Arizona
50 Glowing lines
51 Stefani ___ Angelina Germanotta aka Lady Gaga
53 Diamond data 54 What you have to do to interpret the answers to 16-,
25- and 40-Across
57 Signs up 58 “Maybe”
59 “You sure about that?”
60 Ones tackling their home work
DOWN
1 “Yeah? And what if
I don’t wanna?!”
2 Food, quaintly
3 Trusted
4 Garment that appropriately rhymes with “court”
5 Basted edge
6 Ulterior motives
7 Role for Paul McCartney in the Beatles
8 Is calculating, say 9 Magic org.
10 “Veep” co-star Clea ___
11 Like the left side of the aisle, traditionally
12 Reddit moderators, e.g., in brief
14 Endured
15 El Greco and others
17 ___ Bell, Emily Brontë pseudonym
23 Lula da ___, former president of Brazil
25 Free from
26 When doubled, a 2010s dance
27 Good cheer
29 Good card game
for the inebriated?
32 Suffix with ranch
33 Treaded winter vehicles
35 “You betcha!”
37 Bias
39 Like the cream of the crop
40 Apple store employee?
41 Overhauled
42 Supreme god of ancient Egypt
43 “So true”
44 Felt
46 Sign of late February
49 How a controversial topic might be debated
51 Work well together
52 Aéroport d’___
55 L x W x H 56 Country music’s ___ Young Band