NEWYORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Finger-on-lips sound

4 Performer for whom a San Diego stadium was named 9 Somecompany bigwigs, for short 13 Food mascot in a

green suit jacket 16 Gifford’s talk show

successor

17 “Take that, loser!” 18 Pole position? 19 Comic whom Seinfeld called “the Picasso of our profession”

20 ___ sleep

21 Only graphic novel to win a Pulitzer Prize (awarded 1992)

22 Onetime neighbor

of French Indochina 23 Find outrageously

funny

26 “OK, I’ve heard

enough” 27 Prompter of a channel change, maybe

29 Rain can ruin it 31 Binges

35 What it takes to

become a queen? 36 Neil Patrick Harris’s role on “How I Met Your Mother” 37 Herb of the parsley

family 38 Romeo or Juliet 39 Member of the fam 40 Settles with 44 Some pricey cars,

for short

48 Great deal 50 “Pourquoi ___?” 51 Actress Linney of

Netflix’s “Ozark” 52 Opposite of inept 53 Words that sometimes follow 1-Across

56 Guys

57 Skinflint

58 Leading role in “The Phantom of the Opera”

59 Doesn’t take any

cards, say

60 In need of a lift?

DOWN

1 Passes on

2 French philosopher Bergson

3 2003 #1 hit with the lyric “Shake it like a Polaroid picture” 4 Relative of a tie in music

5 Lead-in to story 6 Newfoundland sound

7 Half of a classic comedy duo 8 Reason to see a gastroenterologist 9 Do some fast data processing? 10 Obsessed with 11 Hangout for Dorian

Gray

12 Flipper

14 Gold rush

phenomena 15 Branch of the D.H.S. 23 Like a stereotypical

mobster’s voice 24 Things picked up at

a landfill 25 Sub-Saharan

scourge

28 False front

30 British flier 31 Giuseppe ___, leader in Italy’s unification 32 English translation

of 50-Across 33 Accord

34 Natural history

museum sights 35 Emergency exit

feature

36 Beer with a

triangular logo 41 Way cool

42 Ways

43 A keen eye, for a

proofreader, say 45 Waves of New

Agers?

46 “Little Women”

director Gerwig 47 Having had quite

enough

49 Much can be

written on this

51 Off

54 Small cell

55 Piece in Stratego