N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Williams who was one of the original Temptations 5 Audible nudge

9 Ones holing up in closets? 14 Where the dish oysters Rockefeller was invented, informally

15 “Fine then!” 17 Got a schoolmate in trouble, maybe

18 Case study? 19 Round trips? 21 Flies 22 Nutritional guideline, in brief

23 Parting word 24 Delicate touch

25 Dinner ___

26 Hard and fast

27 Rebuff

29 Stands

30 Jewelry

stores?

34 First track on a soundtrack album, often 35 Common material for a jacket

40 Make murky 41 Passing

concern 42 Stuff searched for in vein?

43 Lingering

quality

44 Callisto’s animal form, in Greek mythology 46 Voice

48 Certain

border

49 Speak softly with contentment 50 Creature whose name comes from the Tswana language 51 Bruce Lee in “Fists of Fury,” for example

54 Parting word 55 Marbled cut 56 Let proceed 57 Unit of magnetic flux density 58 Not again! 59 Prohibition Bureau name

DOWN

1 How beans or cheese are often served in Britain 2 As you like it 3 “All right, you’ve got my interest” 4 Title woman in a 1975 R&B hit by the Spinners 5 Preschool recital

6 R&B artist with the Grammywinning

2017 hit “Best Part” 7 The “she” of “Nevertheless, she persisted”

8 Ape or parrot

9 Snafu

10 Like NyQuil, in brief

11 1979 film with Bette Midler’s first starring role 12 Cabinet additions 13 Does some lifting 16 Stayed fresh

20 Wax figure? 24 Excited, in modern slang

25 Item in a metalworker’s gun

28 Dark period for Monet 29 Eponym of a European capital, by tradition 31 L’___ (Lalique perfume)

32 Nonbinary possessive 33 “Get ___!” 35 Firm, in a way

36 Male kangaroos 37 Sensationalistic opinion, informally 38 Agamemnon’s son

39 Studies more closely, perhaps

40 Running

mate?

44 Cheeks

45 Lyre holder in classical artwork

47 River of Idaho

49 Letter before Quebec in the NATO alphabet

50 Squirt

52 “Cool” amount

53 Big ___