NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Sleeper’s support 8 Quick refresher 14 “The Spoonful of

Milk” painter, 1912 15 Whom The New York Times co-named athlete of the year, with Babe Ruth, in 1920 16 Peppery orange-red

condiment

17 What a single is

worth

18 Toy inspector? 20 Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris, once: Abbr. 21 Missed-the-turn

maneuver

22 Not doing anything 26 What comes before

a final

29 Some bands’

practice sessions 31 Place to get a

platza treatment 32 Gymnast Raisman 33 Simplest choice 34 State of ___ 35 Condone an action

tacitly

38 Secretly pass gas? 39 M.L.B. great with a famous “unbreakable” streak, familiarly 40 Ottoman authority 41 ___ fusion 42 Anti-discrimination

govt. agency 43 Nautical ropes 44 Do some branding? 45 Mexican free-tailed ___ (world’s fastest horizontal flier) 46 Place to go, for short

48 “Damn right!” 54 One who is mean as the Dickens? 57 “Ohhh …” 58 “September 1, 1939” poet

59 “Never heard that before” 60 45-Across, for one 61 Bridesmaids’ expenses

DOWN

1 Great deal

2 “This can’t be happening”

3 Biter

4 Tennis great nicknamed “The Punisher”

5 Tool that you turn on

6 His “Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy” was the first album to debut at #1 on Billboard 7 What the “angler” on a deep-sea anglerfish can do 8 It may go on sale on November 1 9 Uncommon blood type, for short 10 “Admittedly …” 11 Group that had the first hardcore rap album to reach #1 on Billboard 12 Power couple? 13 Intro to cognition 15 Pouts

19 UPS fleet 23 Place for a working

model

24 Get involved 25 They’re chosen for their high-grade potential

26 Red or green

condiments 27 Fictional girl who says “I go to all the weddings in the White and Gold room and I usually stay for the reception”

28 What LASIK treats 30 Metric unit equal to

100 square meters 31 Take off, as a layer 33 Lots and lots 34 Popular TNT drama that starred Kyra Sedgwick

36 World capital whose name means “elephant trunk” in Arabic 37 As well

42 Polished off 43 Objects thrown out hotel windows, in a rock ’n’ roll cliché 45 Zero, in scoring

slang

47 “___ there yet?” 49 Morning host Kotb 50 Discover

51 Pizza chain,

informally

52 1990 World Cup

final city

53 Milk sources for

pecorino Romano 54 Personal ad abbr. 55 Cuppa from China 56 Hit head-on