NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Covered up
5 Robinson of TV’S “I Think You Should Leave”
8 Charity bowling
event, e.g.
13 Home to Waianuenue Falls
14 0, for 0°
15 Conspicuously unfamiliar party guest, informally
16 One-___ punch (kung fu technique)
17 Frequent rock
soloist
19 Liberal leader? 20 Words before “Yes, I cried, yes I cried” in “Return of the Mack”
21 “When has that ever been true?”
23 Amusement,
online
24 Trash collector 25 ___ theory
28 Filter feeder’s
fodder
30 “In that case,
move on!”
33 Table salt is
made of them 34 Some natural history museum exhibits, for short
35 Brand image
36 Create a diversion from a damaging issue, in politics 38 Podcaster Marc 39 Names
40 Senegal-totogo dir.
41 Actress Chaplin 42 Show of hands? 47 Collection of 10 directives written by Vladimir Lenin 50 Animal whose name sounds like you?
51 Place to get a
cold brew
52 “Bearing gifts we traverse ___” (“We Three Kings” lyric)
53 Mohawk Valley
city
54 “Now ___ even” 55 Took off
56 2020 Christopher Nolan sci-fi thriller
57 Yearbook grp. 58 Licks, say
DOWN
1 Pants material
2 Pants material
3 Role for Malcolm-jamal Warner on “The People v. O. J. Simpson”
4 “Gah!”
5 Keep busy
6 On the whole
7 Site for a movie
poster?
8 Commonsensical
9 Actor John of Broadway’s “Carousel” 10 Unfooled by
11 Congressman
Kinzinger
12 “Gimme, gimme, gimme!”
14 Casino game that’s 100% luck
18 Beings made from smokeless fire, in the Quran
20 Elided pronoun 22 British composer Gustav
25 Warehouse cost 26 Brand whose last letter is in the shape of its product
27 Saturday morning character
28 Christchurch
resident
29 Spot for a
hairpin
30 They’re not the
main event
31 Artist in the avantgarde Fluxus movement
32 Actress Glazer 34 Old automaker with the models Firedome, Fireflite and Firesweep
37 W.W. II aircraft
carrier
38 May celebrants 41 ___ citato (in the work quoted: Lat.)
42 Enchantress in
Greek myth
43 Fisher with a
stownet
44 FAQ checkers 45 “Gimme, gimme, gimme!”
46 Longtime mint brand that doesn’t contain any mint
47 Appear
alongside
48 Sneaky ___
49 Line from a bit? 52 [So adorable!]