The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Forgo Uber or Lyft 9 Maxim, e.g. 15 Story involving Pecos Bill or Babe the Blue Ox 16 Grandmother, in Granada 17 Like a burglar or a ballerina, maybe 18 Website with the popular page r/explainlikeimfive 19 Producer with cameos in “Iron Man” and “Black Panther” 20 What thinning hair might affect

21 “___ Kapital” 22 D.C. fundraising group 23 Without 24 Blondish 27 Discards in old maid

29 Org. for Big Red or Big Green

30 Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, for one 35 Digital photo add-on 37 Best-selling author who used an awful lot of commas 38 “That’s … never gonna happen” 39 Protruding nail 40 One with more than two billion followers 41 It might be found on a belt 45 Diamond, on the Mohs scale 46 Number of capitals of Bolivia 47 Critical 49 “You made a mistake,” sarcastically 53 Faddish hairstyle of the mid-2010s 54 One who might get you into hot water? 55 Giving a tattoo 56 Halfway home 57 Samples 58 College party buys

Down

1 Vintage Pontiacs 2 Long blog entry, maybe 3 Skiing mecca in the Rockies

4 It’s a setup 5 Active in determining the outcome 6 Phoebe of “Fast Times at Ridgemont High” 7 Cream additive 8 Capital of Bolivia? 9 Fictional raiding archaeologist 10 Second son 11 Bros 12 Mythical enchantress 13 Set straight 14 Los ___, Calif. 20 Foes of Fido, stereotypically 22 Ideal 24 Impertinent sort 25 Dermatologist’s target

26 Who originated the modern image of Santa Claus 27 One out? 28 Eastern honorific 30 Features of many Disney films

31 Craft shop item with a seemingly redundant name 32 Helps for short people, for short 33 Link on a restaurant’s Yelp page 34 Freudian focus 36 “Science made clear,” per Jean Cocteau 40 Track-and-field star Jackie ___-Kersee 41 ___ one

42 Hit 2016 film set partly at sea 43 Cenobites 44 Wrigley brand 46 Activity at un bal masqué 48 Buggy area 49 Stop waxing, say 50 Instrument with metal keys 51 Group with a hand sign, maybe 52 Rival of Ford and Packard 54 Gander : goose :: ___ : swan