The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Billboard magazine feature
6 Abbr. in skin care
9 Creatures with asymmetrical ears for accuracy in hunting
13 Facts-as-fiction work
16 Some summer arrivals
17 “Join the club!”
18 World’s best-selling contemporary female artist of all time, per Billboard magazine
19 “Who ___?”
20 “So … who wants in on this deal?”
22 Snag
23 Alongside
24 Children in Vienna
26 Costume that might start with a cardboard box
28 Two cents for a paper, perhaps
30 Body with a floor
31 Orchestral instrument that doesn’t make a sound
32 Extension ___
33 Pass (out)
34 Trinket 36 Unpolished
37 One might be chosen for its perspective
38 Loafers
40 Like hair at salons
42 Bad side
43 Data head?
44 Drummed-up measures?
47 Seasoned rice dish
50 Make a big stink
52 Blue book alternative
54 Actress Sink of “Stranger Things”
55 Say goodbye to many a
34-Across à laMarie Kondo 56 Prunes
57 Destiny’s Child’s “___ My Name” 58 Was appealing?
59 Some time
Down
1 Newmark with an eponymous list
2 Series of stakes 3 “Truer words were never spoken!” 4 Word from the Dutch for “talk nonsense” 5 “Claws”
channel
6 Trail
7 One way to avoid a lecture 8 Experienced 9 Bygone 10 Makes very uncomfortable, informally
11 They may be tied up in a sequel
12 W-2 ID
14 Are in store
15 Didn’t come through as promised, in slang
21 Not be serious
23 Given (to)
25 Garden tool
27 Summons before congress?
29 More sententious
31 Group with the 2020 #1 album “Be”
32 Country whose official languages are French and Arabic
33 Be super-infatuated with someone
35 Jazz great Laine
36 What a bee may be
39 “To All the ___ I’ve Loved Before” (2018 film)
41 Hoist, redundantly
44 Given a number, maybe
45 Press, e.g.
46 Oozing smarm
47 Fills with fluff
48 One may be floated or rough
49 Liu of “Why Women Kill”
50 Coronation, e.g.
51 –
53 Card display?