Ottawa Citizen

N.Y. TIMES CROSSWORD

- ADAM AARONSON AND RICKY CRUZ / WILL SHORTZ

ACROSS

1 Popular brand of alcoholic seltzer

10 Average, maybe

14 One might be off the hook

15 Blunt end?

16 At bottom

17 French prepositio­n

18 Palm products, for short

19 Word of indifferen­ce

20 Hallux, less formally

21 More with it

23 Physicist Nathan with an early theory of wormholes

25 Some are performed in a theater, for short

26 Camera setup

28 YouTuber’s creation, informally

29 Certain apartment

30 Curry, for one

33 Like a masseuse’s hands, often

34 Add to an overstuffe­d suitcase, say

35 Some spring births

37 French word whose plural is its English translatio­n backward 38 Long, unproducti­ve activities

40 Can of worms

41 “Spare me the details!”

42 Sound produced by a dental click

43 “___ on!”

44 Seven-year stretch

46 Findings of MyersBrigg­s personalit­y tests

50 Deck builder’s tool

52 Heart diagnostic, briefly

54 Cold and damp

55 Sellers of product lines like Joxtorp and Knorrig

56 Asked nosy questions about

58 Ethnic minority in North Macedonia

59 Sports bet

60 Very, to Véronique

61 Racing game with speed boosting mushrooms

DOWN

1 Fancy cars, in modern slang

2 Auto pioneer Soichiro

3 Corrective phrase

4 The wrinkle in “A Wrinkle in Time” and the Cosmic Cube in Marvel Comics, for two

5 Discograph­y section

6 With 51-Down, where solutions are kept, in brief 7 Eremite, e.g.

8 Ingredient in a classic Caesar salad

9 Like some hours

10 Track, say

11 Stuff that’s hard to get off your chest?

12 Starting point of the annual Spartathlo­n

13 Show that awards plays

15 Pull (in)

20 Just what the doctor ordered, perhaps

22 Ready

24 Campaign that may involve catapults and trebuchets

27 Crafts supply that’s difficult to clean up

29 Happenasta­nce, cutely

30 Record producer?

31 Garment that might not be worn around the house

32 “Sailor Moon” genre

34 Like Frida Kahlo’s art

36 Airdrops?

39 Daughter of Metis and Jupiter, in Roman myth

44 Supermodel Holliday

45 One needing a lift?

47 2008 Beijing Olympics mascot

48 Try one’s luck in, say

49 Garment on a tennis court

51 See 6-Down

53 ___ Halliwell, real name of Ginger Spice

56 Certain toy, briefly

57 Tweedledum and Tweedledee, e.g.

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