NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

EDITED BY WILL SHORTZ

ACROSS

1 #1 Taylor Swift song about defying one’s critics

11 Make out

15 Where a hand might be raised 16 Mother of Hermes

17 Bakery item with a Mediterranean flair 18 Smacker

19 ___ Kukoc, 6’11” N.B.A. star of 19932006

20 Usually illegal maneuvers

21 Place for an anchor

22 Wonkish sort

24 Tough, demanding type

27 Suck up

30 Longtime cartoon business

31 ___ pal

32 Beverage brand with a wave in its logo 34 Knight in a popular film franchise 35 “Where America shops for value,” per an old slogan

36 Eight-time Norris Trophy winner 37 Scene of biblical destruction 38 Ancient dweller beyond Hadrian’s Wall 39 Where you might be given the third degree

41 Peak service?

42 “What a ___”

43 Cranky due to lack of food

44 Holds for a while

46 Make, as one’s way

47 See 45-Down

48 Pacific island capital

50 It may precede “copy”

54 Goggle

55 Bushes are found on both sides of it 57 Biblical brother

58 About to start the workday, say 59 Flammable structure

60 “If nothing else …”

DOWN

1 Help out, in a gym 2 Prefix with -gram 3 Related

4 Comedian who starred in 2014’s “About Last Night”

5 Lead-in to long

6 Shout of pain

7 Like goods weighed on scales 8 Not question

9 Classic bit of study material

10 Put change into

11 One reporting a fight

12 Pet with short legs and a long body, slangily

13 Chooses at the request of Monty Hall, say

14 Not shut up

21 Rap mogul of the highest degree? 23 Ages and ages

25 Funny Schumer

26 By a narrow margin 27 Scrubber sold in a yellow box 28 First hip-hop single to top the Billboard Hot 100 (1990) 29 Ottawa landmark completed just after W.W. I

30 Impressive display

33 Mild cheese with an orange rind 34 Who wrote “I am two fools, I know, / For loving, and for saying so / In whining poetry”

37 Get a good look at 39 Artificially stir (up)

40 Cover in a protective layer 42 What “pizza” means in Italian 45 With 47-Across, talus 46 Machine that pulls

49 Draft amount, maybe 51 Fifth-brightest star in the night sky 52 Harmonia’s opposite in Greek myth

53 Go on (about)

54 Chain with more than 3,500 stores worldwide

55 One doing a balancing act, say 56 Coconut ___