The New York Times crossword puzzle

No. 1009

Across

1 Travel item

5 Battle cry

11 Pop group?

14 Smart ___

15 Its national animal is the beaver

16 Sustainability indicator

17 Painter whose cataract surgery allowed him to see and paint in ultraviolet

19 Knee part, for short

20 ___ Richmond, former head of the Congressional Black Caucus and senior adviser to Joe Biden

21 Order in the court

23 Certain exotic pets

25 Dishevel 26 Baseball team whose mascot is Screech the eagle, familiarly

27 Sinking fastballs

32 Ron who played Tarzan

33 Start of a count

34 Conductor’s cry

35 Popular podcast genre

36 Advanced degree

39 Equal opportunity

40 Local legends

41 Dance move

42 Egglike

44 Sticky candy?

49 “Bam!” chef

50 “That’s gotta hurt”

51 Where you might get the ball rolling

53 Armmuscle, slangily

54 Place

55 The Grim, in the Harry Potter books 56 Fig. often written with X’s

57 Shapes of some dog treats

58 Soft or hard finish

Down

1 Big shot?

2 More than discouraged

3 Part of a Navy officer’s rotation

4 Luxury vehicles since 1986

5 Ephemeral palaces

6 ___-o’-shanter

7 Hoity-toity type

8 Die out

9 Some stand concessions 10 Velocity, e.g.

11 ___ film

12 Purpose of a pass

13 Shapes

18 Hullabaloo

22 Repair

24 Strauss’s “Also ___ Zarathustra”

28 Scales up?

29 Much-covered New Orleans standard based on Mardi Gras chants

30 Relays, e.g.

31 Ripped

33 Arc-shaped musical notation

34 Disney redhead

35 Bit of auto design inspired by the jet age 36 Easygoing

37 One may be personal

38 Spartan, e.g.

39 Blows away

40 Keep one’s head down

41 Units of land, with or without the first letter

43 [I can’t believe what I just read]

45 Okonkwo’s people in “Things Fall Apart”

46 Left on board, say

47 Boo-boo

48 “Help!,” for example

52 It’s all over the papers