The New York Times

ACROSS

1 Big name in

Scotch

7 Family name on

“Seinfeld”

15 Provincial governor in the Byzantine Empire

16 Patriots in New

York, e.g.

17 Harmless rattler

18 Ram rod?

19 Working

21 Secure, with

“down”

23 Frozen asteroid or

planet

27 Left a bad

impression on?

31 Boxer Trinidad

32 “Don’t just take

my word for it!”

34 What may be drawn with black and white?

39 Flush, e.g.

42 Prepare, as a certain movie snack

43 Celeb

45 Equilibrium

49 Vegetarian

spread

53 On every

occasion

55 Dispensable

young beau

56 Big name in beer 57 One side in the

Ryder Cup 58&59 Lakeside activity ... or a hint to the words spelled across the fifth, eighth and 11th rows of the completed grid

DOWN

1 Mark on one’s

record

2 Proctored event,

maybe

3 John McCrae, author of “In Flanders Fields,” e.g.

4 Name seen on the Kazakh/Uzbek border

5 First soft drink sold in allaluminum cans

6 Light carriage,

informally

7 Memory ___

8 Be shy

9 Onetime Scandinavian export

10 Rule that should

be broken?

11 Rat-_ _ _

12 Like the newest

model, familiarly

13 Jewelry store

eponym

14 “My thoughts

exactly!”

20 What jelly rolls

are filled with?

22 Memorable 2021

hurricane

24 Word often

before a year

25 One who’s not a

fan

26 One way to prevent stock losses?

28 Bug collection?

29 Ancient invaders

of Rome

30 Silas ___, first American diplomat to France

33 Mauna _ _ _

35 Tailgate grill

36 Separate

37 2.0, for one

38 Moonscape

feature

40 Took full advantage of the buffet, say

41 Unmoved reaction

44 West Coast burger chain with a “not-so-secret menu”

45 Vast expanses

46 Lose value quickly

47 News anchor

Smith, informally

48 Enthusiastic

assent in Spanish

49 On the surface it might not look like much

50 Five-spots

51 Prefix for

fireworks

52 Imbibe

54 R&B/pop vocal group Boyz II ______