NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Part of a boot

7 Purina product 14 “Finished!”

15 “You wish!”

16 Young raptor

17 Highs and lows, e.g. 18 Much-discussed immigration measure first introduced in 2001 20 Silver

21 Ape whose name comes from Malay for “man”

23 “I reckon”

24 Company that makes vegan alternatives to beef and sausage 29 The Liberty Tree and

others

32 Observe Yom Kippur,

e.g.

33 Adidas alternative 34 Vacation locale for

President Gerald Ford 35 Actress Elisabeth 36 Hauled

37 Tennis’s Kournikova 38 Wails

39 Pat on the back, maybe 40 Upright

41 “You have a point …” 42 No-win situations 44 Put on a black coat? 46 Nice things to get on the back, but not on the face 47 Cleaned up, in a way 50 Frenzied

55 Area including Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas 57 Capital of the onetime Republic of the Rio Grande

58 “It sounds to me like …” 59 Follows, as advice 60 Rubberized, maybe 61 “Bug”

DOWN

1 One-to-one, say 2 Congresswoman Ilhan 3 Lucky thing to hit in

Ping-pong

4 Fountain option 5 Windflower 6 Fortification-breaching

bomb

7 Crew leader,

informally

8 Former U.N. secretary

general Kofi ___ Annan 9 Linger

10 Subject of a classic black, white and red poster

11 Earth, to us

12 Many a tournament 13 Occident

15 Subject in the purview of the Federal Communications Commission 19 In-tents

experiences? 22 Method of attack 24 Opera’s Don Pedro and Don Pasquale, e.g.

25 Shared values

26 “Just watch me do it!” 27 Race cars, typically 28 Soupçon

30 Chop

31 Blind spots?

36 “Full Frontal With Samantha Bee” network 40 Typographer’s gap 43 Where water samples may be tested, informally

45 Luke Skywalker or Han

Solo

47 Sportscaster

Andrews

48 First queen of

Carthage

49 Member of the South

Asian diaspora 51 Hangings in la Galleria

degli Uffizi

52 Place to find the birds

and the bees?

53 One with tens of millions of Instagram followers, maybe 54 Part of an obstacle

course

56 Race unit