NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Colorful custardy

confection 10 Sudden

inspirations 15 Waltz

onomatopoeia 16 Love

17 Classic diner

orders

18 Apply, as ointment 19 Kitchen brand whose name is an ambigram 20 Pit-___

21 More might come

before it

22 Its employees might get under your skin

24 Thing with rings 25 Legal action 28 Some Disneyinspired Halloween costumes

30 “___ me!” (request

to a fridge-goer) 31 Like blue and green ski trails, vis-à-vis black diamonds

33 Pep

36 Looks the other

way

39 Modern ___

40 “A ___ place is in the House, and in the Senate” (bumper sticker) 41 Actress Kendrick 42 Sharon’s predecessor as Israeli PM

43 One of the Blues

Brothers

45 One of the Coen

brothers 48 Relative by

marriage 50 Where to do as others do, it’s said

52 Stain

53 Sprinkling 56 Canon

competitor 57 Street featured in Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” (that’s also 50-Across)

59 Still sticky 60 Make thin 61 Crushes it 62 Couple in the

back of a car

DOWN

1 Snap

2 Component of three of the five French “mother sauces”

3 “That’s ... never

gonna happen” 4 “Double” or “triple”

drink

5 Actress Taylor of

TV’s “Bones” 6 Agatha Christie novel named after Death’s mount in Revelation

7 Make ___ for 8 Danger for desert

hikers

9 Ending with four or

six, but not five 10 Teri of “Mr. Mom” 11 Does laundry or pays bills, in modern lingo 12 Clearheaded 13 Novel content 14 Tell

21 Couldn’t let go of 22 Group portrayed in “Slacker” and “Reality Bites,” familiarly 23 Straighten 25 Proficient

26 ___ review

27 One quadrillion:

Prefix

29 Trio of horrors? 32 Target

33 Rosso o bianco 34 Driver’s license fig. 35 Ren Faire

concession 37 United competitor,

once

38 “Heavens!” 42 Squarish

44 Not yet manifest 45 Spurns

46 Longtime “Inside the NBA” commentator 47 Writer Jong 49 South America’s

Río de la ___ 51 Eponym of the World Series MVP award

53 “Have no ___ of perfection — you’ll never reach it”: Dalí 54 Suffix with towel 55 Melancholiac’s list 57 Dictionary abbr. 58 Rapa ___ (Easter

Island)