NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Tricky spot to

be in?

10 COPY, perhaps 15 Coffee order 16 Seasonal

shop, e.g. 17 Adherent to the motto “Fortune favors the bold” 18 Wrong 19 Pretentious

display

20 Start fishing 21 Org. with many overseas workers

22 What makes the

short list?

23 Prefix with

-centric

25 Father of

Calypso

28 Nothing to write

home about 29 Something you might get at the beach

30 Volleyball position 32 Large storage unit 34 Home contractor specialty, for short

36 Word with bread

or water

37 Certain marine

herd

41 Lickspittle 45 Loved, with “up” 46 Word that retains its meaning when preceded by “no” 48 Be a pest, in a

way

49 Took a hard fall,

informally

50 Something a TV station may not earn money from, for short

51 Abbr. in calculus 52 Verdant 53 Declaration of

innocence

57 Boy who said “Sure, Charlie Brown, I can tell you what Christmas is all about” 58 “Beowulf” and

“Aeneid,” for two 59 Warmest month in

Patagonia

60 Is shocked or horrified by the image of, jocularly 61 First permanent settlement by people of European descent in what is now Utah 62 MIT’s sports team

name

DOWN

1 Latin music duo 2 “Ain’t it so?”

3 Big picture

4 Ticks off

5 Corp. with a red umbrella implied in its logo

6 What classic

sonnets do

7 NBA legend Olajuwon 8 Simple dance 9 Taycan and Macan 10 Head-in-theclouds sort 11 What makes clam chowder “Manhattan” rather than “New England” 12 How an imitator or silly person acts 13 Words of prohibition 14 Here’s even more: Abbr.

24 Rock that’s graded 26 Fashion trend embraced by Fendi and Versace 27 Potentially

prophetic child 31 Lil Baby’s genre 33 The first “T” of TOTY [___ of the Year award] 35 Renaissance-era

cup

37 Bug catcher 38 Coming down

hard?

39 Keyed in (to) 40 Item on a

janitorial cart 42 Certain lap dog 43 Not quite boiling 44 Pokémon’s Gary

and Ash, e.g. 47 Verbal interruption and hesitation 54 Prologue follower 55 Woven, as a

37-Down

56 Choice of one who’s too hard to please

57 “Titanic” co-star,

familiarly