The New York Times Crossword

10 11 12 13

ACROSS

1 Popular brand of alcoholic seltzer 10 Average, maybe

14 One might be off the

hook

15 Blunt end?

16 At bottom

17 French preposition 18 Palm products, for

short

19 Word of indifference 20 Hallux, less formally 21 More with it 23 Physicist Nathan with an early theory of wormholes

25 Some are performed in

a theater, for short 26 Camera setup 28 Youtuber’s creation,

informally

29 Certain apartment 30 Curry, for one

33 Like a masseuse’s

hands, often

34 Add to an (overstuffed

suitcase, say

35 Some spring births 37 French word whose plural is its English translation backward 38 Long, unproductive

activities

40 Can of worms

41 “Spare me the details!”

42 Sound produced by a

dental click

43 “___ on!” 44 Seven-year stretch 46 Findings of Myersbriggs personality tests

50 Deck builder’s tool 52 Heart diagnostic,

briefly

54 Cold and damp 55 Sellers of product lines like Joxtorp and Knorrig

56 Asked nosy questions

about

58 Ethnic minority (in

North Macedonia 59 Sports bet

60 Very, to (Véronique 61 Racing game with speed-boosting mushrooms

DOWN

1 Fancy cars, in modern

slang

2 Auto pioneer Soichiro 3 Corrective phrase

4 The wrinkle in “A Wrinkle in Time” and the Cosmic Cube in Marvel Comics, for two 5 Discography section 6 With 51-Down, where solutions are kept, in brief

7 Eremite, e.g. 8 Ingredient in a classic

Caesar salad

9 Like some hours

10 Track, say

11 Stuff that’s hard to get

off your chest? 12 Starting point of the

annual Spartathlon 13 Show that awards

plays

15 Pull (in)

20 Just what the doctor

ordered, perhaps 22 Ready

24 Campaign that may involve catapults and trebuchets

27 Crafts supply that’s

difficult to clean up 29 Happenstance, cutely 30 Record producer? 31 Garment that might not be worn around the house

32 “Sailor Moon” genre 34 Like Frida Kahlo’s art 36 Airdrops?

39 Daughter of Metis and

Jupiter, in Roman myth 44 Supermodel Holliday 45 One needing a lift? 47 2008 Beijing Olympics

mascot

48 Try one’s luck in, say 49 Garment on a tennis

court

51 See 6-Down

53 ___ Halliwell, (real

name of Ginger Spice 56 Certain toy, briefly 57 Tweedledum and

Tweedledee, e.g.