NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Self-conscious person’s exclamation 12 Self-conscious person’s question 15 Once in a while, poetically

16 Get the heck out of Dodge

17 What mathematicians call a lemniscate 18 Letters in film and the hotel business 19 Burning feeling

20 At birth

21 Whole head of hair

22 Back-combs

24 Opposite of fortuitous

26 Guzzles, say

28 Musical family name from Cremona 29 Dross

33 Problem with live-streaming

34 Olden land north of Anglia

35 Chitchat

37 Most baggy

38 Owners of the dogs Bo and Sunny 39 Home of the 2000 Summer Olympics:

Abbr.

40 Pistolet, par exemple

41 Sign of spring

42 Company Steve Jobs once owned 44 Bit of off-season N.C.A.A. news

46 Take a bite out of?

51 Popular video game of 2000, with “The” 52 Easy interview question

53 Reason for a medal

54 And … that’s a wrap!

55 Fancy term for a long prison sentence 58 Get the heck out of Dodge

59 One-third of a literary trio

60 Fathead

61 Hub of Memphis night life

DOWN

1 Get the grease out of 2 Of a flock

3 Actress Ruth of “Loving” 4 Levels

5 Shaken up

6 Ravel’s “Pavane Pour ___ Infante Défunte” 7 Presidential monogram hidden in this clue

8 Closing the gap

9 Author of “The Condition of the Working Class in England,” 1845

10 Bris official 11 Otolaryngologist, familiarly 12 Where did you go? 13 Attractive quality

14 Instant

21 Bubbly cocktail

23 Arch supports

25 ___ Tuesday (modern restaurant promotion)

27 “What happens when language fails,” per Margaret Atwood

29 Garment made with spandex

30 Taxing

31 Rosa Parks and Booker T. Washington,

for two

32 Urchins

34 “Terrible, just terrible”

36 Fleet at a distribution center

37 First word in Yale’s motto

39 Complete miss

42 Middle America, symbolically

43 Go back (to)

45 Water park feature

47 Preferential treatment

48 Something worn with flare?

49 Nick of 2019’s “Angel Has Fallen” 50 Nod at, say

55 Nebraska senator Fischer

56 Dec. 31

57 “I Love Lucy” network