The New York Times Crossword

Answers below

ACROSS

1 Hardly a quick read

5 Boom box contents?

8 Medieval lockup

12 Well versed in

13 Fly “away!”

14 Big metal manufacturer

16 Engage in scrambling or

bouldering

18 Coruscate

19 Experience euphoria

21 Chinese dynasty in which gunpowder was invented

22 Shape of some desks

23 Green house?

24 Never

26 Light-sensitive cells

28 Lead-in to gender

30 Tower of London figure

31 Sarcastic expression of

gratitude

34 Massive step forward,

so to speak

35 They’re inclined to help

beginners

36 Playground retort

37 “Long,” in Hawaiian

38 Shouts of joy

42 Bringing in, as a sail

44 Spa treatment, for

short

46 Exemplary individual

47 Third of the peerage

ranks 48 Youngest White House resident since John F. Kennedy Jr.

51 Didn’t go out, maybe

53 Feature of many a

documentary

54 Not as open

55 “Gotcha”

56 Inclination

57 Some hydrating skin

care products

58 Identifiers of a sort: Abbr.

Unchanged

59 DOWN 1

One hoping to catch a break

2 Program started under Kennedy

3 Lose momentum

4 Paul who sang with Sam Cooke and Neil Sedaka on the 1963 album “3 Great Guys”

5 Roughly a quarter of Girl Scout cookie sales

6 Danish restaurant with “Best Restaurant in the World” accolades

7 ___ Heath, U.S. women’s soccer star

8 Comedic bit

9 A real piece of cake

10 Flow chart?

11 Upper bound at a bank 13 Narrow landforms prevalent in Zion National Park

15 California-based

biotechnology giant

17 Windy City commuters’

inits.

20 Landmark in Madrid,

Oslo or Brussels

25 [Snicker]

27 High roller?

29 Where sockets are

found

32 City in the Red River

delta

33 Blended products

34 Reality show whose cast appeared in the music video for Taylor Swift’s “You Need to Calm Down”

35 They require inspiration

36 Disciplines

39 Some nectar sources

40 Like the Mocha coffee

bean

41 Really hurts

43 First name in California

politics

45 College in Cedar

Rapids, Iowa

49 Decent

50 “Bubbles” in a drink

52 New Deal-era org.