The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Finger-on-lips
sound 4 Performer for whom a San Diego stadium was named 9 Some company bigwigs, for short
13 Food mascot in a green suit jacket 16 Gifford’s talk show successor 17 “Take that,
loser!”
18 Pole position? 19 Comic whom Seinfeld called “the Picasso of our profession” 20 ___ sleep 21 Only graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize (awarded 1992) 22 Onetime neighbor of French Indochina 23 Find outrageously funny 26 “OK, I’ve heard
enough” 27 Prompter of a channel change, maybe 29 Rain can ruin it 31 Binges
35 What it takes to become a queen?
36 Neil Patrick Harris’s role on “How I Met Your Mother” 37 Herb of the
parsley family 38 Romeo or
Juliet 39 Member of the
fam
40 Settles with 44 Some pricey
cars, for short 48 Great deal 50 “Pourquoi
___?” 51 Actress Linney of Netflix’s “Ozark” 52 Opposite of
inept
53 Words that sometimes follow 1-Across 56 Guys 57 Skinflint 58 Leading role in “The Phantom of the Opera” 59 Doesn’t take any cards, say
60 In need of a
lift?
Down
1 Passes on 2 French philosopher Bergson
3 2003 #1 hit with the lyric “Shake it like a Polaroid picture” 4 Relative of a tie
in music 5 Lead-in to
story 6 Newfoundland
sound
7 Half of a classic
comedy duo 8 Reason to see a gastroenterologist
9 Do some fast data processing? 10 Obsessed
with
11 Hangout for
Dorian Gray 12 Flipper
14 Gold rush
phenomena 15 Branch of the
D.H.S.
23 Like a stereotypical mobster’s voice
24 Things picked
up at a landfill 25 Sub-Saharan
scourge
28 False front 30 British flier 31 Giuseppe ___, leader in Italy’s unification 32 English translation of 50-Across 33 Accord 34 Natural history
museum sights 35 Emergency exit
feature
36 Beer with a
triangular logo 41 Way cool 42 Ways
43 A keen eye, for a proofreader, say
45 Waves of New
Agers?
46 “Little Women”
director Gerwig 47 Having had
quite enough 49 Much can be
written on this 51 Off
54 Small cell 55 Piece in
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