The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 “Chop-chop!” 5 Barrel : cooper :: ___ : fletcher

10 Actress Chlumsky of “Veep” 14 Be bested

15 Title heroine of a 2016 Disney film

16 Light element? 17 Cookout option for someone avoiding red meat 19 Robert who was the subject of the 2003 true crime book “A Deadly Secret” 20 Moves stealthily

21 75% of 1,000? 23 Sheltered, at sea

24 Dove shelters

25 Person who makes do? 28 Singer Del Rey

29 Places surfers frequent, for short? 32 Creme-filled cookies 33 So-called “ship of the desert” 34 Prefix with physics

35 “And another thing …” 36 Practical, stubborn, ambitious sort, so it’s said

37 Be on the mend

38 Rigid

39 Evert of tennis 40 Intrinsically

41 Org. whose workers look into cases

42 Detest

43 Like some ropes and nerves 44 Relating to bears 46 Buffoon

47 Max who lent his name to a constant in physics 49 Fighter’s embrace

51 VW or BMW

52 Words on a mall map … or a punny hint for eight squares in this puzzle 56 Legendary ruler of Egypt, informally

57 Go round and round 58 Capital of France 59 Sound made by a noisy noodle eater

60 ___ manual

61 Iambs and trochees

DOWN

1 PC key

2 Mixed drink with lemon or lime juice 3 Questions

4 Game played with the fingers 5 Person going for a stroll 6 Mickey of “The Wrestler” 7 Poverty, metaphorically 8 Phone button that lacks letters

9 Places on travel advisory lists 10 Wrestling Hall-of-Famer ___ the Giant

11 Mental operation? 12 Part of a Groucho Marx disguise

13 Workers in formicaries 18 Wassailing times

22 List ender

24 Author of “L’Étranger” 25 Brag

26 French city whose last two letters are silent 27 Wolfgang Puck, e.g. 28 Actress Metcalf of “Lady Bird” 30 Rental agreement

31 Like shoes

33 ___ blanche

36 “Much obliged” 37 Director of many courses 39 Very smart 40 Accident-___

43 Toys (with)

45 Prying sort 46 Debussy’s “___ de Lune” 47 Campaign support grps. 48 Quiet period

49 343, to 7

50 Part of un jour

53 Some conjunctions 54 Fish eggs

55 Is from France?