The New York Times
ACROSS
1 Billboard
magazine feature
6 Abbr. in skin care
9 Creatures with asymmetrical ears for accuracy in hunting
13 Facts-as-fiction
work
16 Some summer
arrivals
17 “Join the club!”
18 World’s best-selling contemporary female artist of all time, per Billboard magazine
19 “Who ___?”
20 “So … who wants
in on this deal?”
22 Snag
23 Alongside
24 Children in
Vienna
26 Costume that might start with a cardboard box
28 Two cents for a
paper, perhaps
30 Body with a floor
31 Orchestral instrument that doesn’t make a sound
32 Extension ___
33 Pass (out)
34 Trinket
36 Unpolished 37 One might be chosen for its perspective
38 Loafers
40 Like hair at salons
42 Bad side
43 Data head?
44 Drummed-up
measures?
47 Seasoned rice
dish
50 Make a big stink
52 Blue book
alternative
54 Actress Sink of
“Stranger Things”
55 Say goodbye to many a 34-Across à la Marie Kondo
56 Prunes
57 Destiny’s Child’s
“___ My Name”
58 Was appealing?
59 Some time
DOWN
1 Newmark with an
eponymous list
2 Series of stakes
3 “Truer words were never spoken!”
4 Word from the Dutch for “talk nonsense”
5 “Claws” channel
6 Trail
7 One way to avoid
a lecture
8 Experienced
9 Bygone
Edited by Will Shortz No. 0513 10 Makes very 33 Be uncomfortable, superinfatuated informally with someone
11 They may be tied 35 Jazz great Laine
up in a sequel 36 What a bee may
12 W-2 ID be
14 Are in store 39 “To All the
15 Didn’t come ___ I’ve Loved through as Before” (2018 promised, in film) slang 41 Hoist,
21 Not be serious redundantly
23 Given (to) 44 Given a number,
maybe
25 Garden tool
27 45
Press, e.g. Summons before congress? 46 Oozing smarm
29 More sententious 47 Fills with fluff
31 Group with the 48 One may be 2020 #1 album floated or rough “Be” 49 Liu of “Why
32 Country whose Women Kill” official languages 50 Coronation, e.g. are French and 51 –
Arabic
53 Card display?