NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Sassy
6 Drink with a shot balanced on chopsticks over a beer
14 Meredith’s half sister on “Grey’s Anatomy”
15 Pack man
17 Certain record
18 Gracious words when accepting an honor
19 Eroded
20 Exhibition that might attract eye rolls, for short
21 Went quickly
22 Third-most-popular baby girls’ name in 2020, after Olivia and Emma
23 Serengeti grazer
25 Make out
26 Joint winner of Time’s Person of the Year for 2020
30 “Incorrect!”
31 “Intolerable Cruelty” director, 2003
32 Org. associated with the note series G-E-C
35 Author who referred to his works as a “legendarium”
37 More vexing
39 Word before now
40 Scoop often used in Indian cuisine
42 Ship on which Darwin collected material for “On the Origin of Species”
43 Encouraging words
45 “Mmm hmm ...”
48 Ingredients for pastry cream
49 Gumshoe
50 Term of address for a noble
53 Mass Appeal Records co-founder
54 Sheltered place
55 French phrase in many bistro names
57 Daughter of Elrond in “The Lord of the Rings”
58 Fearless
59 Like the flame between exes, sometimes
60 Century of note
61 Examinations
DOWN
1 Played in the wind, say
2 Fixer-upper
3 Above and beyond, with “the”
4 Part of an equine bloodline
5 Song word sung twice before “goodbye”
6 Opened up during an examination
7 The first one printed in America was in 1639
8 Metric speed meas.
9 ___ Olmert, former Israeli P.M.
10 Foe of the Fighting Tigers
11 Multicolor hair effects
12 Fountain fare
13 Censor
16 Whirl
20 The highest form of flattery?
23 Pacific Ocean phenomenon
24 Lemon ___
27 Query
28 Running gear named after running animals
29 Legends,often
32 Ones late to work?
33 “Seriously!”
34 Symbols on the flags of Algeria and Azerbaijan
36 Kind of blue
38 Kit ___ Club (“Cabaret” locale)
41 Genre for “The Dark Knight,” appropriately
43 Medieval servant
44 Secretive things?
45 One-named model and philanthropist
46 Storage units prone to explosion
47 Lift a lot
51 Tennis star of the 2000s, familiarly
52 It covers a lot of ground
54 Native of central Canada
56 Word in some South American city names
57 Refined oil product?