The New York Times crossword puzzle

No. 1011

Across

1 Presenters’ presenters, informally 4 San Fernando Valley community 10 Come together 13 Locale of the Campo de’ Fiori 15 Kidspeak animal mentioned in the first line of “A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man” 16 Thurman of “Kill Bill” 17 Sight in front of the Lincoln Memorial 18 “Let’s do it!” 19 Small handful 20 Parvenues with a certain je ne sais quoi 22 Color the oldfashioned way 24 Appellation akin to “tiger,” “sport” or “champ” 25 Concludes neatly 26 Queen ___ (nickname in pop music) 27 Persian defense org.? 29 Bustles 30 Response to the peanut gallery 34 1870s tax evasion scandal 35 1982 Soft Cell hit that spent 43 weeks on the Billboard charts 36 What often follows thunder and lightning 37 Version before a stable release 38 “The ___ of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice”: M.L.K. 41 Not be oneself, but rather be one’s elf? 45 “The nerve!” 47 In keeping with tradition 48 Bliss 49 Sugar substitute 50 Matador’s cape 52 Give someone a hand

53 Coy comeback 54 Like apartment buildings with fireplaces and hardwood floors, typically 55 Otter’s lair

56 Amazon worker 57 Most balanced 58 Old gaming inits.

Down

1 Coca-Cola offering from 1974 to 2001 2 Something a kindergartner doesn’t want to get

3 Like Beijing 4 Who once wrote “Nothing is less important than which fork you use” 5 Jules et Jim, e.g. 6 Minor player 7 Billionaire who lent his name to a stadium on New York’s Randalls Island

8 Movable type? 9 Buck in the jukebox

10 Lab assistant, maybe? 11 Harris who sang with Dolly Parton and Linda Ronstadt 12 Sites for some mics 14 Longtime Sacha Baron Cohen character 21 Enter quickly

23 ___ Johnson a.k.a. The Rock 25 Tiptoed past, say 28 What mud can do 30 Certain laundry load

31 ___ Reese, soldier in “The Terminator”

32 Works during a painter’s blue period? 33 Furniture that’s often backless 34 Place for a TV and books 35 “We can’t joke about this yet?” 36 Member of a holy trinity 38 Toyota sedan since 1994 39 ___ value 40 Catacombs 42 Parts of soap dispensers 43 1944 Gene Tierney classic 44 Wrench handle? 46 Prepare a plate, in a way 48 Things in airport windows, for short 51 Queen of she-baa?