NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Modest qualifier, online
5 Sling
9 Where it’s at
13 Easy kill in Fortnite, say
14 ___ days
16 Nabe
17 Problems with pay or paper 18 Information in a shopping guide 20 End of some business names 22 Media pro
23 Rides into battle
25 Grease
26 Bratty kid
27 Bomb
28 U.N. agcy. headquartered in Geneva 31 Many a staffer for a late-night show 34 “Keen!”
35 Musical alter ego of Donald Glover 37 Minute
38 Relatives of water skis
39 Go soft, in a way
40 Rocker Joan
41 Lights or darks, e.g.
42 One way to take stock? 43 Gardeners’ tools
46 Beer with an astronomical name 49 What Brits call a “saloon” 50 Cookout option for a vegetarian 53 Last option on a survey
54 Corvine : crows :: strigine : ___ 55 Word said with a handshake 56 Lip, in slang
57 When doubled, “I heard you the first
time”
58 Cartoonish wail
59 Hullabaloo
DOWN
1 Worshipers of the rain god Illapa 2 Knight’s need
3 Office-sharing system, in modern
lingo
4 To an excessive degree
5 One-sixth of a fl. oz.
6 One might make a splash
7 Possible insight for a psychologist 8 Irreverence
9 Exactly
10 Sci-fi beam makeup
11 Packed with plasticware, perhaps 12 The plot of Genesis?
15 Deserving of condemnation 19 Extend, as an employment contract 21 “Bridesmaids” co-star Chris
24 Tries and fails
28 Getting a strange vibe
29 Helper
30 Plains people
31 Hwy. crossings
32 North/south divide, with “the” 33 Feels no remorse
34 They get big bucks from big Bucks 36 Climates
40 Part of a frame job?
42 Pet peeve?
44 Businesswoman Zuckerberg, sister of
Mark
45 Not look so good?
46 Break-dancer, in slang 47 Home-improvement chain eponym 48 Where Kareem Abdul-jabbar played college ball
51 Prefix with system 52 Counterpart of FF