The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 750-milliliter bottles

7 ___ C. J. Walker, first American woman to become a self-made millionaire, per Guinness

12 Pretend

13 Flowers known botanically as

Leucanthemum vulgare 15 Lady Gaga album named for

her aunt

16 Stops being stubborn 18 “There’s no accounting for

taste”

21 Birthplace of Buddha 22 More spacious

23 Walks in the park

25 Carries on

26 Up

27 Compliment to a chef 29 Tartarus, by another name 30 Prefix with night or day 31 Mimicked

33 Tepid assessment

35 Actress whose nickname derives from her middle name, Stamatina

36 Family prefix

38 Make it, gamewise 40 Eponym of a red-and-white

heraldic rose

42 Decorated athlete whose name could be parsed as “zero” + “loss”

44 Nikkie ___, beauty vlogger with more than 13 million followers on YouTube

46 “Way to go!” 48 Replenish

49 Eliminate from contention 54 More affected

55 Outfit with flaps and snaps 56 Pays in the Alps?

57 Move around

58 “The Divine Miss M” 59 Thought and thought and

thought (about)

DOWN

1 Challenging setting for the 2020 Olympics men’s road cycling course

2 Playing past regulation,

informally

3 ___ house

4 Letters

5 Had a craving

6 Take time to think about

something

7 By ethical standards 8 Cousin of a lutz

9 Reese in “Touched by an

Angel”

10 Affirmative on the U.S.S.

Enterprise

11 State emblem of Israel 14 Target

17 Member of the A.F.C. team with most division titles

19 ___ y pimienta

20 “4 real?!?”

23 Lesser-used passages 24 Total

26 British singer with the hits “How We Do (Party)” and “Your Song”

28 They may be mixed 30 Network with Joy Reid’s “The

ReidOut”

32 “I like telling ___ jokes.

Sometimes he laughs!” 34 French Calvinist

37 Check attachment 39 Escape

41 Sap

43 Longhaired star of 1950s TV 45 Quickly put down

47 Give a lift

50 Suffix akin to “-o-rama” 51 “You don’t have to tell me!” 52 One of the few places where

traffic is appreciated 53 Ticked (off)