The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 What might make the news, for short?
6 Sweetie
9 Dry and crack 13 Butt-dials?
16 First American woman in space
17 It doesn’t run below the bridge
18 Like some speculation
19 Enliven, with “up”
20 Rough patch?
21 Temper, quaintly
23 Governance
24 British sausages
25 Overly coddled
29 Pair of percussion pieces
30 Unmasks
31 Mole-training grp.
34 Of a feather
35 Essential framework
36 “Bridgerton” actor Regé-___ Page
37 A-list guest, to a host
38 Ice cream shop purchase
39 Think pieces
40 Made big changes
43 Figures
45 Figures that are best kept low, in brief
46 Serenade
47 One who puts one past you
48 Easily shareable download
51 Zip
52 Like mischiefmakers
55 Tribe related to the Missouri
56 Film industry nickname
57 Sexy growl
58 Sleep on it
59 “Mercy me!”
DOWN
1 Kitchen qty.
2 “Survivor” climax
3 Masterstroke
4 Arsoninvestigating org.
5 “Sorry, I messed up”
6 Merriamwebster’s Ninth New Collegiate Dictionary and “Where’s Waldo?,” once, surprisingly
7 Ingredient in some soaps
8 High ways?
9 Response to an approaching embarrassment
10 Cause of some buyer’s remorse
11 Chicago’s ___ Planetarium
12 Pressure source
14 The seasons, e.g.
15 Preps for surgery
22 Marching band?
23 Johnson who directed “Glass Onion”
24 Covered expenses
25 “I don’t kiss and tell. I ___ and brag, baby!”: Austin Powers
26 Long-nosed swimmer
27 “They’ve really thrown down the gauntlet!” 28 Assailed
32 Grammy-winning Erykah
33 Clouseau, e.g.: Abbr.
35 Eclipse
36 Some 53-Down files
38 Futura, for one
39 Killing it
41 One welcoming with open arms
42 Woman “in my dreams,” in song
43 Early American fur tycoon
44 Mazda model
47 2, for He: Abbr.
48 Below C level, say
49 Columnist Maureen
50 The Big Apple’s “bravest,” in brief
53 See 36-Down
54 Powerful Pontiac of old