The New York Times crossword puzzle

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 M.I.T.’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 N.B.A. 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 Renaissanceera 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” costar, familiarly