The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Meal maker? 7 “Vamoose!” 13 Fats Domino’s
real first name 15 Skin-care
brand 16 Austrian treats 18 Put down hard 19 Rows 20 Barbershop staple from “The Music Man”
22 Shiraz setting 23 Ones putting
down quadrels 24 Practice composition?: Abbr.
26 Whole note, to
a Brit
28 Port on Ishikari
Bay
30 Friends 32 SpaceX head
Musk
33 Sibling trio in
“Hamilton” 37 “Would ___?” 38 One might be a
“n00b”
39 Dry runs, e.g. 41 Commonsensical 45 Cartoon word often seen with a lightning bolt
46 Channel swimmer Gertrude
48 ___ floresiensis (extinct “hobbit”)
49 Day of doom, in Scandinavian mythology 51 “It’s déjà vu all over again” speaker
52 Sea seen from
Ithaca 53 Destination proclamation 55 Fifth of eight parrying positions in fencing 56 Wearying work schedule 57 Equilibria 58 Call of Duty tally
Down
1 French aniseflavored liqueur 2 Uncut 3 Flow
4 Flow stopper,
of a sort 5 Preserves
covers? 6 Memphis-to
Nashville dir. 7 Big character in children’s literature 8 Very much 9 Lead-in to
méxico 10 Poet Sara who wrote “I Shall Not Care” 11 Shaking like a
leaf, maybe 12 Runner’s ___ (marathoner’s woe)
14 Title actress on Netflix’s “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” 17 Early Mercedes-Benz racing car 21 Part of Sherlock Holmes’s attire
23 Part of a merry refrain
25 Goes for the
bronze? 27 Believe 29 Some pyramids, though not the ones at Giza 31 Drawn-out
campaign 33 ___ bath 34 Leave en masse 35 Historical name of the Iberian Peninsula 36 Kakuro
calculation 40 Group of 100
people 42 Bothered
terribly 43 “Jackpot!” 44 Ta-Nehisi who wrote the best seller “Between the World and Me” 47 Builders of the original Legoland 50 Generates, with
“up”
51 Reduce in force or intensity 52 They’re high at M.I.T. and Stanford 54 About to
explode