The New York Times Crossword Puzzle

ANNE AND DANIEL LARSEN

ACROSS

1 Part of a boot 7 Purina product 14 “Finished!” 15 “You wish!” 16 Young raptor 17 Highs and lows,

e.g. 18 Much-discussed immigration measure first introduced in 2001

20 Silver

21 Ape whose name comes from Malay for “man” 23 “I reckon” 24 Company that makes vegan alternatives to beef and sausage 29 The Liberty Tree

and others 32 Observe Yom

Kippur, e.g. 33 Adidas

alternative 34 Vacation locale for President Gerald Ford 35 Actress Elisabeth 36 Hauled

37 Tennis’s

Kournikova 38 Wails

39 Pat on the back,

maybe

40 Upright

41 “You have a point

…”

42 No-win situations 44 Put on a black

coat?

46 Nice things to get on the back, but not on the face 47 Cleaned up, in a

way

50 Frenzied

55 Area including Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas

57 Capital of the onetime Republic of the Rio Grande

58 “It sounds to me

like …”

59 Follows, as advice 60 Rubberized, maybe 61 “Bug”

DOWN

1 One-to-one, say 2 Congresswoman Ilhan

3 Lucky thing to hit in Ping-Pong 4 Fountain option 5 Windflower 6 Fortificationbreaching bomb 7 Crew leader, informally 8 Former U.N. secretary general Kofi ___ Annan 9 Linger 10 Subject of a classic black, white and red poster

11 Earth, to us 12 Many a tournament 13 Occident 15 Subject in the purview of the Federal Communications Commission 19 In-tents experiences? 22 Method of attack 24 Opera’s Don Pedro and Don Pasquale, e.g. 25 Shared values 26 “Just watch me

do it!”

27 Race cars,

typically 28 Soupçon 30 Chop

31 Blind spots? 36 “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” network 40 Typographer’s

gap

43 Where water samples may be tested, informally 45 Luke Skywalker

or Han Solo 47 Sportscaster

Andrews

48 First queen of

Carthage 49 Member of the South Asian diaspora 51 Hangings in la Galleria degli Uffizi

52 Place to find the birds and the bees?

53 One with tens of millions of Instagram followers, maybe

54 Part of an

obstacle course 56 Race unit