NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Leading lady?

12 Depiction on the Australian coat of arms

15 Popular orders at beachside bars

16 U-haul option 17 Comment before indulging

18 Some theft targets 19 Protrusions near a trunk, maybe 20 Sticks

21 Whizzed (by)

22 Word sometimes substituted for “your”

23 Killing a mockingbird is one, per Atticus Finch

24 Prepare for court, in a way 26 Tamagotchi, once

27 Modern lead-in to speak

28 Park ranger’s handout

29 Stayed out of sight

31 Bouquet

32 Palindrome with an apostrophe in the middle 34 Contents of some wells 35 Sleeveless top, informally 36 Approached quickly

37 Complete set in musical comedy?

39 Psych up

41 Bill that’s half a 52-Across, informally

42 ___ Short, pioneer in West Coast hip-hop 45 Reroute

46 The sun or the moon

47 Ganja

48 Whizzed (by) 49 “The Virtue of Selfishness” essayist, 1964 51 Pal of Seinfeld and Costanza 52 See 41-Across 53 Way of Life?

55 Stir

56 Helen of Troy, e.g.

57 Lip

58 Some reference works in newsrooms

DOWN

1 Not very much 2 Missing portion of a manuscript 3 Gradually stopped, with “out”

4 Hair pieces

5 Qts. and pts. 6 Way out 7 Onetime Food Network show featuring Creole and Cajun cuisine 8 Kind of jar

9 “Go placidly

___ the noise and the haste …” (start of

Max Ehrmann’s “Desiderata”) 10 Louise of

TV’S “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman” 11 Ballpark fig.

12 It’s a bad sign 13 Raked in the dough

14 Messy, as a floor

21 Tussle

23 ___ protein

25 Parent company of Gerber and Lean Cuisine 27 Dorothy of old “Road” films

28 13, for many 29 Shaped, as wood

30 Singer/ songwriter of 1980’s “Kiss Kiss Kiss”

32 Popular salon option, informally

33 Toxin that might contain formic acid

36 Symbol associated with Communism

38 Go out

40 Houston or Washington vis-à-vis Manhattan 42 Tightened (up) 43 Threatening words 44 Hyperfocus 46 Buck ___,

Major League Baseball’s first Black coach 47 Gardner of “S.N.L.”

50 General assembly?

51 R&B singer Erykah

53 Burnable items 54 Burnable item