The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Body part whose name comes from the Latin for “little mouse”

7 Wise

11 Sponsored posts, essentially 14 Symbol tattooed on Popeye’s

forearm

15 Fairy tale villain

16 Gossip fodder, slangily 17 Avoids, with “of”

19 Sardonic

20 Like forks

21 Places for congregations 22 With 9-Down, goose liver 23 Knock down, in Britain

24 A white one might be

excused

25 Steels (oneself)

26 Father

27 Good time on Wall Street 29 Mysteries

31 Letter sign-off

32 Ancient Greek gathering

places

33 Hot spot

37 Utah ski area

39 The Father of Modern Physics 40 Open audition, informally 44 Bird in “Alice’s Adventures in

Wonderland”

45 First astrological sign 46 Biochemical messenger 47 Academic musts, for short 48 All-out sprint

49 Lecture series focused on

“ideas worth spreading” 50 Sharp 52 Partner of neither

53 2021 in the Chinese zodiac, with a hint to 17-, 27- and 40-Across

55 Styled after

56 Push

57 Senator Feinstein

58 Faux ___

59 Traditional Thanksgiving

desserts

60 Went bad

DOWN

1 Naval post

2 Like the Energizer Bunny 3 Imagined development 4 Pizzeria tool

5 Singer with the 2017 #1

album “Melodrama” 6 Nervous speech fillers 7 Cirque du ___

8 Not look bad after all this

time

9 See 22-Across

10 Suffix with racket and rocket 11 In action

12 Ridicule 13 Speak, old-style

18 Mediocre grade

22 Noted evening radio address 25 Rapper in court

26 Wine-dark ___, metaphor in

Homer’s “Odyssey”

27 Wallop

28 Most frequent, statistically 30 Crowded places on Black

Friday

34 Well-spoken

35 Energy source in Minecraft 36 As well

38 Measure of land

39 British pharma giant,

informally

40 Quick snooze

41 Colored part of the iris 42 Jeweled bands

43 Chef José ___, founder of

World Central Kitchen

47 Ten to one, for one

49 Actress Hatcher

51 Marked, as a ballot 53 “That’s right!”

54 Prez who delivered

some 22-Downs