NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Enthusiastic assent
5 Certain service
9 Packs (down)
14 Important leadership skill
16 Classic neogrotesque typeface
17 “Losing some illusions … perhaps to acquire others,” per Virginia Woolf
18 Gloomy and drab
19 Cause of an early lead, maybe
20 Like a spitball
21 Darth Vader’s childhood nickname
22 Author who wrote “The heaventree of stars hung with humid nightblue fruit”
24 Sticky stuff
25 Hardly mainstream
28 Pluto, e.g.
29 Sudden sensation
30 Cutesy “I beg your pardon?”
34 “What a shocker”
35 “Heaven forbid!”
36 Singer Mitchell
37 Shapiro of NPR
38 John B. Goodenough is the oldest person ever to get one (at age 97)
42 Travel guess, for short
43 Joyous song
46 “Ambient 1: Music for Airports” musician
47 Candy cooked until it reaches the hard-crack stage
50 Approach
53 Tell all
54 Strutting one’s stuff
55 Kind of moment worth recording
56 Xenomorphs, e.g.
57 Cart contents
58 What air is not for an anaerobe
59 Looked at suspiciously
DOWN
1 Throw on the couch
2 Angel said to have visited Joseph Smith
3 Like shunga woodblock prints
4 What breaks as it first comes out
5 “The Pinkprint” rapper
6 Belligerent, slangily
7 “Put a sock in it!”
8 500 letters?
9 “I did it!”
10 Like Mars
11 Psychological trick
12 It’s just the beginning of the story
13 Sneaky sort
15 Model (for)
20 Composer Anton who used the 12tone technique
23 Main component in the Chinese street food jianbing
26 Children’s classic originally written in German
27 Nov. 11 honoree
29 Sauce whose name derives from “pound” in Italian
31 Double curve
32 Crowdsourced Q&A site
33 The Promised Land
34 Honest-togoodness
35 Fall apart
36 Zippy resort rental
39 Joint application?
40 Tempt
41 Took inventory?
44 Home with a view
45 Unembellished, as the truth
48 Bit of deception
49 Lodge group
51 Loud bugling, e.g.
52 Concerning
54 Appearing ill or exhausted, say