The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 You can buy it by the inch
8 Nick ___, college football coach with the most national titles (seven, as of 2023)
13 Shell stations?
15 Current connection point
16 ___ National Monument, landmark in New York City’s West Village
18 Secret targets
19 Hard to handle, in a way
20 Some foreign relations
22 Sketch
23 Throw in
24 Faints from emotion
27 Tuition, e.g.
28 H.S. football night, usually
29 Professional org. that launched the “War on Smoking”
30 Lee of film
31 Spending excessive time reading negative news online
35 Modern form of ostracization
36 Popular vodka cocktails
37 Norse goddess of death with an aptsounding name
38 Family nickname
39 Long to be in Hollywood?
40 “___ news?”
41 Bagel shop request
44 “What’s happening?”
47 Curry and others
49 Chicken ___
50 Mount (up)
51 Knack
53 They go straight to your head
56 Tapenade ingredient
57 Evidence of a “SCREECH!,” maybe
58 Let up
59 Bridge tactic
Down
1 Making a crossing, say
2 Out ... or went out with
3 Tear into
4 Small drinking glass, as for liquor
5 Saperstein who founded the Harlem Globetrotters
6 Harsh cry
7 Mythological name that means “awakener of desire”
8 ___ Miguel Island, one of the Azores
9 Some Boolean operators
10 Events for bibliophiles
11 Award-winning poet ___ Rich
12 Reserve, of a sort
14 Open with a penknife, say
17 Name symbolizing restoration
21 Pasta or pudding ingredient
24 Way
25 Eponymous county of Ireland
26 Coastal corrosion cause
28 Typesetting consideration
31 British newspaper with the highest paid circulation (as of 2023)
32 Drink made with syrup
33 Includes, in a way
34 Horace’s “two-horned queen of the stars”
35 Common fabric for bedspreads
36 “Why?”
42 Memory units, for short
43 Call up
44 Stiff fiber
45 Extremist
46 Persistently annoying
48 One of the Hindu trinity
50 Ceremony
52 Dinosaur in “Toy Story”
54 Spot for discards
55 Not like everything else