The New York Times
ACROSS
1 Part of a boot
7 Purina product
14 “Finished!”
15 “You wish!”
16 Young raptor
17 Highs and lows, e.g.
18 Much-discussed immigration measure first introduced in 2001
20 Silver
21 Ape whose name comes from Malay for “man”
23 “I reckon”
24 Company that makes vegan alternatives to beef and sausage
29 The Liberty Tree and others
32 Observe Yom Kippur, e.g.
33 Adidas alternative
34 Vacation locale for President Gerald Ford
35 Actress Elisabeth
36 Hauled
37 Tennis’s Kournikova
38 Wails
39 Pat on the back, maybe 40 Upright
41 “You have a point …”
42 No-win situations
44 Put on a black coat?
46 Nice things to get on the back, but not on the face
47 Cleaned up, in a way
50 Frenzied
55 Area including Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas
57 Capital of the onetime Republic of the Rio Grande
58 “It sounds to me like …”
59 Follows, as advice
60 Rubberized, maybe 61 “Bug”
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1 One-to- one, say
2 Congresswoman Ilhan
3 Lucky thing to hit in Ping-Pong
4 Fountain option
5 Windflower
6 Fortification-breaching bomb
7 Crew leader, informally
8 Former U.N. secretary general Kofi ___ Annan
9 Linger
10 Subject of a classic black, white and red poster
11 Earth, to us
12 Many a tournament
13 Occident
15 Subject in the purview of the Federal Communications Commission
19 In-tents experiences?
22 Method of attack
24 Opera’s Don Pedro and Don Pasquale, e.g.
25 Shared values
26 “Just watch me do it!”
27 Race cars, typically
28 Soupçon 30 Chop
31 Blind spots?
36 “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” network
40 Typographer’s gap
43 Where water samples may be tested, informally
45 Luke Skywalker or Han Solo
47 Sportscaster Andrews
48 First queen of Carthage
49 Member of the South Asian diaspora
51 Hangings in la Galleria degli Uffizi
52 Place to find the birds and the bees?
53 One with tens of millions of Instagram followers, maybe
54 Part of an obstacle course
56 Race unit