The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Amanuenses

8 Clog

13 Famous game-saving 1954 World Series play by Willie Mays

15 Many a Zoroastrian

16 Nice place to read or watch

TV

18 Mad about

19 It might be dry or biting 20 Raise people’s spirits? 22 Phrase that’s often contracted … or suffix for something contracted 24 Oozed

25 Location of a daith piercing 26 ___ Cherry, singer with the

1988 hit “Buffalo Stance” 28 Long account 29 Humblebrag, of a sort 30 Order against disclosure 32 Bad

34 Romps

36 This clue’s answer might contain more than seven letters

38 Bad

42 Gave a hard time

43 Fusses

45 Met for a few hours in the

evening?

46 Makers of Deep Blue, the first computer to beat a world chess champion under tournament conditions 47 Potato chips,

in Britain

49 One in a nursery rhyme

pocketful

50 Figures in “Knives Out” and

“The Maltese Falcon” 53 Peter Pettigrew’s Animagus, in

the Harry Potter books

54 ___ space

55 Keeping one’s thoughts to

oneself, say

57 One who’s a charmer, maybe 58 Traditional Polynesian beverage that numbs the mouth

59 Brined white cheeses

60 “The White House” vis-àvis the executive branch of government, e.g.

DOWN

1 In an agitated state 2 Cardamom-containing

coffeehouse creation

3 At ease

4 Unsalted, perhaps

5 “The beginning and end of all

music,” per Max Reger 6 Shared values 7 September/October zodiac

symbol

8 Agreed

9 Part of a 45-Across

10 Marvel Comics character played multiple times by Ian McKellen 11 Skip or Reverse

12 Dole Plantation, e.g. 14 Game where It always counts 17 Eminem track with the Guinness World Record for “most words in a hit single” 21 Washington hub that’s a

portmanteau of two cities 23 Shot only you can take 27 “Peas” or “golf balls” 29 Apple product

31 Creative works with net

proceeds?

33 Food item often

accompanied by tzatziki 35 Word before or after “first” 36 Ochlocracy

37 “You know what you did!” 39 Average American, allusively 40 Press secretary’s asset,

informally

41 “We did it!”

42 Scam

44 Gadget that might be

disguised as something else 47 Alternatives to baskets

48 A bad one is your fault 51 Designer Wang

52 Race winner’s prize

56 Ring call, in brief