NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Spelunker’s aid 5 Went (for) 10 Club alternatives 14 Home of the Polka Hall of Fame and Pro Football Hall of Fame

15 Interpret the

parts of

16 Line for a sleigh

ride

17 Olympics haul of

fame? 19 European royal

capital

20 Images that are nice and easy to look at

21 Master

negotiator 23 Move named for the 19th-century skater Paulsen 24 Most

milquetoast-y 25 Skill for a good

physician 29 Heritage

30 Folk rock band with two 1965 #1 hits, with “the”

31 Org. with an Office of Air and Radiation 34 Some Tripadvisor listings

35 Light brown

seals

36 “Frozen” character with antlers 37 It’s not the final

number: Abbr. 38 Skier’s problem 39 Equanimity 40 Accept things as

they are 43 Nurse’s office

supply

45 Sassy

46 Sport that made its first Olympics splash in 1904 47 Slot machine

bonus

51 Piece of mind? 52 Crawl 54 Stretched out 55 2x 56 International grp. that’s well financed? 57 Pump up

58 Did some crew

work

59 Kind of force

Down

1 Box on

Broadway 2 Shouted

greeting

3 Word with air or

square

4 “This American

Life” and others 5 Led the way 6 People-powered

vehicles

7 It helps make

waiting easier 8 Common night school class, for short

9 Goes to hell? 10 TV journalist

Baldwin 11 Choice made while thinking “ugh” 12 Mahjong set 13 Ungenteel laugh 18 Long dresses 22 You can see

right through it 24 On menus, it’s often by the lobster

25 Big wheel at a

party? 26 Millennia 27 “Keep on keepin’

on!”

28 Biblical birthday

gift

32 Capital of the

Philippines 33 Over

35 Doesn’t

surrender 36 Charming

vulnerability 38 Journalist

Ifill who was depicted on a postage stamp in 2020

39 Israeli P.M. between Rabin and Netanyahu 41 Oxymorphone,

for one 42 Followed 43 “Downton Abbey” daughter 44 Irrational thing

to celebrate? 47 “Not ___!” 48 Follower of Oscar in the NATO alphabet 49 Snacks that drip 50 Head turner 53 Group depicted in the 2015 biopic “Straight Outta Compton”