The New York Times Crossword

By Ryan Judge

ACROSS

1 Sky-high

10 “In-tents”

getaways

15 Solo act?

16 Mononymous singer with numerically titled albums

17 Footwear with distinctive yellow stitching

18 New Delhi’s _ _ _

Temple

19 Jumps over, say

20 Gave 9-Down

22 “Just ___ headsup ...”

23 2019 World Series

champs, familiarly

24 Southwest city that gets about 350 days of sunshine a year

26 Monk’s title

27 Isle of _ _ _ (historic region of England)

28 Noted cairn terrier

of film

29 ___ society

31 Odysseus’ faithful dog in the “Odyssey”

32 Specks

33 Dangerous thing

to be inside

38 Thrifty competitor

39 Hews

40 Excites

42 The Black Knights

of the NCAA 43 Its famous chime consists of the three notes G-E-C

46 Lead role of a 1979

Broadway hit

47 N-___ (mathematical sets)

49 Plunder

50 Japanese

honorific

51 Papal issue

52 Medieval Latin for

“great”

53 Relished

56 Seattle slew?

58 Word with aid or

pad

59 Places to see lots

of lutzes

60 Beats in a photo

finish, say

61 1979 hit whose

title is stuttered

DOWN

1 Line from one who’s fully fed ... or fully fed up

2 Garden-variety

3 Bad blood

4 Things to keep in

check?

5 Some Olympus

offerings, in brief

6 One in a highchair

7 Lose eligibility for,

as Little League

8 Rationale for “throwing good money after bad”

9 Nods

Edited by Will Shortz No. 0202

10 Bit of energy, for

short

11 Tumult

12 Some Instagram statistics, fittingly?

13 Party add-ons

14 Puppet show

locale, for short

21 “What an idiot I

am!”

24 Lomé locale

25 Without feeling

28 Where one may or may not make the cut

30 TV tavern whose owner bribes Mayor Quimby to pass a health inspection

31 Charity

33 One way to make

cookie dough?

34 Higher up

35 Flop

36 Grave words

37 Shade providers at the National Mall

41 Magazine, e.g., for

short

43 Where Midori Ito lit the Olympic cauldron

44 John or Paul

45 Top-tier

48 Holiday celebrated by reading the Megillah

49 Actor Bill of

“Barry”

52 Gore Vidal’s “___

Breckinridge”

54 Nation whose currency is the dirham: Abbr.

55 Texting counterpart of “ty”

57 “Gonna have to

pass”