The New York Times Crossword Puzzle

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-mostpopular 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 cofounder 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?