The new york times crossword

ACROSS

1 Enthusiastic

assent

5 Certain

service

9 Packs (down) 14 Important leadership skill

16 Classic neogrotesque typeface 17 “Losing some illusions … perhaps to acquire others,” per

Virginia Woolf 18 Gloomy and

drab

19 Cause of an early lead, maybe

20 Like a spitball 21 Darth Vader’s childhood nickname 22 Author who wrote “The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit”

24 Sticky

stuff

25 Hardly

mainstream 28 Pluto, e.g. 29 Sudden

sensation 30 Cutesy “I beg

your pardon?” 34 “What a

shocker” 35 “Heaven

forbid!” 36 Singer Mitchell 37 Shapiro of NPR 38 John B. Goodenough is the oldest person ever to get one (at age 97)

42 Travel guess,

for short 43 Joyous

song 46 “Ambient 1: Music for Airports” musician 47 Candy cooked until it reaches the hard-crack stage 50 Approach

53 Tell all 54 Strutting one’s

stuff

55 Kind of moment worth recording 56 Xenomorphs,

e.g.

57 Cart contents 58 What air is not for an anaerobe 59 Looked at

suspiciously

DOWN

1 Throw on the

couch

2 Angel said to have visited Joseph Smith 3 Like shunga woodblock prints

4 What breaks as

it first comes out

5 “The Pinkprint”

rapper 6 Belligerent,

slangily

7 “Put a sock in

it!”

8 500 letters?

9 “I did it!” 10 Like Mars 11 Psychological

trick

12 It’s just the beginning of the story 13 Sneaky

sort

15 Model (for) 20 Composer

Anton who used the 12tone technique 23 Main component in the Chinese street food jianbing 26 Children’s classic originally written in German

27 Nov. 11

honoree 29 Sauce whose name derives from “pound” in Italian 31 Double curve 32 Crowdsourced

Q&A site 33 The Promised

Land 34 Honest-togoodness 35 Fall apart 36 Zippy resort

rental

39 Joint

application? 40 Tempt

41 Took

inventory? 44 Home with a

view 45 Unembellished,

as the truth 48 Bit of

deception 49 Lodge group 51 Loud bugling,

e.g. 52 Concerning 54 Appearing ill or exhausted, say

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