The New York Times Crossword Puzzle

1 10 15 17 23

25 27 28 30

31 35 36

37 38 39 40

43 44

ACROSS

Remark made after catching someone by surprise Alt-rock band with the 2001 hit album “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” Indoor swimming pools

16 What might roll in the leaves

Pet dogs and cats, affectionately 18 Surge protector? 19 Great work 20 Embroiled (in) 22 Stage that you might enter at night Broadband letters Gangs

With 39-Across, answer to the question “Who’s the solver of this puzzle?” Bird: Prefix Pro with extensions, in brief

Big ticket item? Leading disability rights activist in the 2020 documentary “Crip Camp” Valuable collection Black ___ “Get out of here!” See 27-Across “Get me?,” informally Guileful “Love Island” airer 47 Item in Yo-Yo Ma’s

right hand 50 Sound of suffering … or pleasure

51 Whiff

52 Where the cattle drive in the western epic “Lonesome Dove” begins 55 Consideration when doubling a recipe, perhaps 56 “Don’t worry

about me” 57 Like Alaska on a

U.S. map, often 58 Quite a sight

DOWN

1 Going to get 2 Khaki alternative 3 Use a pick,

perhaps

4 Punches

5 ___ Pippig, threetime winner of the Boston Marathon 6 Word with sister

or story

7 Ride with a third

wheel

8 Outward attitude 9 Bed of roses, so

to speak 10 Character who’s striped and spotted?

11 Causes of some

brain freezes 12 Hot take? 13 Breakfast skillet 14 What a pointer finger can represent

21 Labor relief,

perhaps

23 Port ___, capital

of Mauritius 24 John of “The Big

Lebowski” 26 Squelched, with

“on”

27 His dying words were “There is another … Skywalker …” 28 Ghostlike, in a

way

29 ___ Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer-winning author of “The Sympathizer” 31 Aids for stage

crews

32 Via, informally 33 University in

Georgia

34 Hold on to 35 Arcade game character with a propeller beanie

36 Word with store

or Story

41 ___ Greenwich, co-writer of “Do Wah Diddy Diddy” and “Da Doo Ron Ron”

42 Dispense 43 Muscly, in modern

lingo

44 Popular talk show

of the 2010s 45 Achievement

indicator

46 Show of

contempt 48 Eponymous region of northern France

49 Slick

50 Thick locks

51 Title for a guru 53 Inits. on some

food cans 54 Knock