NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Travel item
5 Battle cry
11 Pop group?
14 Smart ___
15 Its national animal is the beaver
16 Sustainability indicator
17 Painter whose cataract surgery allowed him to see and paint in ultraviolet
19 Knee part, for short
20 ___ Richmond, former head of the Congressional Black Caucus and senior adviser to Joe Biden
21 Order in the court
23 Certain exotic pets
25 Dishevel
26 Baseball team whose mascot is Screech the eagle, familiarly
27 Sinking fastballs
32 Ron who played Tarzan
33 Start of a count
34 Conductor’s cry
35 Popular podcast genre
36 Advanced degree
39 Equal opportunity
40 Local legends
41 Dance move
42 Egglike
44 Sticky candy?
49 “Bam!” chef
50 “That’s gotta hurt”
51 Where you might get the ball rolling
53 Arm muscle, slangily
54 Place
55 The Grim, in the Harry Potter books
56 Fig. often written with X’s
57 Shapes of some dog treats
58 Soft or hard finish
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1 Big shot?
2 More than discouraged
3 Part of a Navy officer’s rotation
4 Luxury vehicles since 1986
5 Ephemeral palaces 6 ___-o’-shanter
7 Hoity-toity type
8 Die out
9 Some stand concessions
10 Velocity, e.g.
11 ___ film
12 Purpose of a pass
13 Shapes
18 Hullabaloo
22 Repair
24 Strauss’ “Also ___ Zarathustra”
28 Scales up?
29 Much-covered New Orleans standard based on Mardi Gras chants
30 Relays, e.g.
31 Ripped
33 Arc-shaped musical notation
34 Disney redhead
35 Bit of auto design inspired by the jet age
36 Easygoing
37 One may be personal
38 Spartan, e.g.
39 Blows away
40 Keep one’s head down
41 Units of land, with or without the first letter
43 [I can’t believe what I just read]
45 Okonkwo’s people in “Things Fall Apart”
46 Left on board, say
47 Boo-boo
48 “Help!,” for example
52 It’s all over the papers