NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Sassy

6 Drink with a shot balanced on chopsticks over a beer

14 Meredith’s half sister on “Grey’s Anatomy”

15 Pack man

17 Certain record 18 Gracious words when accepting an honor

19 Eroded

20 Exhibition that might attract eye rolls, for short 21 Went quickly 22 Third-most-popular baby girls’ name in 2020, after Olivia and Emma 23 Serengeti grazer 25 Make out

26 Joint winner of Time’s Person of the Year for 2020 30 “Incorrect!” 31 “Intolerable Cruelty” director, 2003 32 Org. associated with the note series G-E-C

35 Author who referred to his works as a “legendarium” 37 More vexing 39 Word before now 40 Scoop often used in Indian cuisine 42 Ship on which Darwin collected material for “On the Origin of Species” 43 Encouraging words 45 “Mmm hmm ...” 48 Ingredients for pastry cream 49 Gumshoe

50 Term of address for a noble

53 Mass Appeal Records co-founder 54 Sheltered place 55 French phrase in many bistro names 57 Daughter of Elrond in “The Lord of the Rings”

58 Fearless

59 Like the flame between exes, sometimes 60 Century of note 61 Examinations

DOWN

1 Played in the wind, say

2 Fixer-upper

3 Above and beyond, with “the”

4 Part of an equine bloodline

5 Song word sung twice before “goodbye” 6 Opened up during an examination 7 The first one printed in America was in 1639

8 Metric speed meas. 9 ___ Olmert, former Israeli P.M.

10 Foe of the Fighting Tigers

11 Multicolor hair effects

12 Fountain fare 13 Censor

16 Whirl

20 The highest form of

flattery?

23 Pacific Ocean

phenomenon 24 Lemon ___

27 Query

28 Running gear named after running animals 29 Legends, often 32 Ones late

to work? 33 “Seriously!” 34 Symbols on the flags of Algeria and Azerbaijan

36 Kind of blue

38 Kit ___ Club (“Cabaret” locale)

41 Genre for

“The Dark Knight,” appropriately 43 Medieval servant 44 Secretive things? 45 One-named model and philanthropist 46 Storage units prone

to explosion

47 Lift a lot

51 Tennis star of the

2000s, familiarly 52 It covers a lot of

ground

54 Native of central

Canada

56 Word in some South American city names 57 Refined oil

product?