NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Leading lady? 12 Depiction on the Australian coat of arms

15 Popular orders at

beachside bars 16 U-haul option 17 Comment before

indulging

18 Some theft

targets 19 Protrusions near a

trunk, maybe 20 Sticks

21 Whizzed (by) 22 Word sometimes substituted for “your”

23 Killing a mockingbird is one, per Atticus Finch 24 Prepare for court, in

a way 26 Tamagotchi, once 27 Modern lead-in to

speak

28 Park ranger’s

handout

29 Stayed out of sight 31 Bouquet 32 Palindrome with an apostrophe in the middle

34 Contents of some

wells

35 Sleeveless top,

informally 36 Approached quickly 37 Complete set in

musical comedy? 39 Psych up 41 Bill that’s half a 52-Across, informally

42 ___ Short, pioneer in West Coast hip-hop 45 Reroute

46 The sun or the moon

47 Ganja

48 Whizzed (by) 49 “The Virtue of Selfishness” essayist, 1964

51 Pal of Seinfeld and Costanza

52 See 41-Across 53 Way of Life?

55 Stir

56 Helen of Troy, e.g. 57 Lip

58 Some reference works in newsrooms

DOWN

1 Not very much 2 Missing portion of a manuscript 3 Gradually stopped, with “out”

4 Hair pieces

5 Qts. and pts.

6 Way out

7 Onetime Food Network show featuring Creole and Cajun cuisine 8 Kind of jar

9 “Go placidly ___ the noise and the haste …” (start of Max Ehrmann’s “Desiderata”) 10 Louise of TV’S “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman” 11 Ballpark fig.

12 It’s a bad sign 13 Raked in the dough 14 Messy, as a floor 21 Tussle

23 ___ protein 25 Parent company of Gerber and Lean Cuisine

27 Dorothy of old “Road” films

28 13, for many 29 Shaped, as wood 30 Singer/songwriter of 1980’s “Kiss Kiss Kiss”

32 Popular salon option, informally 33 Toxin that might contain formic acid 36 Symbol associated with Communism 38 Go out

40 Houston or Washington vis-àvis Manhattan 42 Tightened (up) 43 Threatening words 44 Hyperfocus 46 Buck ___, Major League Baseball’s first Black coach 47 Gardner of “S.N.L.” 50 General assembly?

51 R&B singer Erykah 53 Burnable items 54 Burnable item