NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Popular brand of

alcoholic seltzer 10 Average, maybe 14 One might be off

the hook

15 Blunt end?

16 At bottom 17 French

preposition 18 Palm products,

for short

19 Word of

indifference 20 Hallux, less

formally

21 More with it 23 Physicist Nathan with an early theory of wormholes 25 Some are performed in a theater, for short 26 Camera setup 28 YouTuber’s creation, informally 29 Certain

apartment 30 Curry, for one 33 Like a masseuse’s

hands, often 34 Add to an overstuffed suitcase, say 35 Some spring

births

37 French word whose plural is its English translation backward 38 Long, unproductive activities

40 Can of worms 41 “Spare me the

details!” 42 Sound produced

by a dental click 43 “___ on!” 44 Seven-year

stretch

46 Findings of Myers-Briggs personality tests 50 Deck builder’s

tool

52 Heart diagnostic,

briefly

54 Cold and damp 55 Sellers of product lines like Joxtorp and Knorrig 56 Asked nosy

questions about 58 Ethnic minority in North Macedonia 59 Sports bet

60 Very, to

Véronique 61 Racing game with speed-boosting mushrooms

Down

1 Fancy cars, in

modern slang 2 Auto pioneer

Soichiro 3 Corrective phrase 4 The wrinkle in “A Wrinkle in Time” and the Cosmic Cube in Marvel Comics, for two 5 Discography

section

6 With 51-Down, where solutions are kept, in brief 7 Eremite, e.g. 8 Ingredient in a classic Caesar salad

9 Like some hours 10 Track, say 11 Stuff that’s hard to get off your chest?

12 Starting point of the annual Spartathlon 13 Show that awards

plays

15 Pull (in)

20 Just what the doctor ordered, perhaps

22 Ready 24 Campaign that may involve catapults and trebuchets 27 Crafts supply that’s difficult to clean up 29 Happenstance,

cutely

30 Record producer? 31 Garment that might not be worn around the house

32 “Sailor Moon”

genre 34 Like Frida Kahlo’s

art

36 Airdrops? 39 Daughter of Metis and Jupiter, in Roman myth 44 Supermodel

Holliday

45 One needing a

lift?

47 2008 Beijing

Olympics mascot 48 Try one’s luck in,

say

49 Garment on a

tennis court 51 See 6-Down 53 ___ Halliwell, real name of Ginger Spice 56 Certain toy,

briefly 57 Tweedledum and

Tweedledee, e.g.