NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Obtain with

difficulty

10 You can’t make

one by yourself 14 Place where you pay for what you break

16 Villain who says “What you know, you know” 17 “Wow”

18 See 19-Across 19 ___ bourguignon (variety of 18-Across)

20 A symbol of

Australia

21 The Taj Mahal or

Great Pyramid 22 It usually leaves

crumbs

24 Baby buggy? 26 Very rich

30 Not level with 31 Biblical mount 32 Group that’s on

the take?

34 Left, and then

some

36 Reading, to Brits 39 Show dejection, in

a way

42 Yawning, but not

from boredom 43 Spot starter? 46 James who is more than a little forward?

48 “You got that

right!”

49 Sun bloc? 50 Island off the

Tuscan coast 54 Tenderer, maybe 55 What results from

an ace on a deuce 56 Making rough 58 City near Sparks 59 Role for which Levar Burton was nominated for an Emmy

60 Rowers’ workout machines, informally

61 Hoi polloi

DOWN

1 Noted film festival

site since 2002 2 Suckerfish

3 Reacts to losing one’s hearing, perhaps 4 Performer in the first U.S. public radio broadcast, 1910

5 Actor Sutherland 6 Profs, often

7 Italian menu palindrome

8 First object made by humans to break the sound barrier

9 Flare way up? 10 What a representative represents

11 Have dinner at a friend’s 12 Contemporary 13 “That was uncalled for” 15 Kind of grant 23 Actress Christina 25 “I’m afraid …” 27 Barely perceptible 28 Something that might need polishing 29 Salsa legend

Cruz

33 Blues venues? 34 TV Guide’s “Best Series of All Time,” with “The” 35 Froyo mix-in 36 Apple worms,

say

37 Like some

nonbinary people 38 Poking

vigorously 39 Laceless

footwear 40 Having a little

chewiness 41 1960s-’70s French president Pompidou 44 Exuberant cry 45 Some Caribbean

islanders

47 Make out

51 Lug

52 ___ mi (Vietnamese sandwich) 53 Uffizi Gallery

holding 57 Houston, for one