The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 “Award” bestowed at the Kids’ Choice Awards

6 Garter and stockinette, in knitting 14 Outbreaks 15 Admonishment from Austin Powers

16 Took on a pet

project?

17 “All rise”

reversal 18 “Things ___

that simple” 19 Novelist whose “Little Fires Everywhere” became a #1 best seller 20 It was called Big Meadows on the California Trail 21 Bird whose largest species is called the Goliath

22 66, e.g.: Abbr. 23 Casual Friday

gaffe

24 Self starter? 25 Slight contact, on a pool table

27 Like either main face of El Capitan 29 Lightened up? 31 Stand near a

poser 33 Element exhibiting a blue glow when placed in an electric field

35 Unclothe

37 Like the bonds

of table salt 39 Actor Diggs 41 Scaloppine

option

43 Word before

and after “’s” 45 “House” band?:

Abbr.

46 Its population doubles once a year

47 Barossa Valley

export 48 Bibimbap and tamago kake gohan, for two

51 Shire who played a Corleone 52 Popular Schubert composition 53 Single-minded

philosophy 54 Features of many hotel rooms 55 Gets ready to

dry, say 56 “Alas, it is

so”

57 Group of

runners?

Down

1 “We’ve heard enough of this nonsense” 2 Like some TV talk shows, informally 3 “There’s a lot more to this than you think”

4 Heart 5 Contractor’s

fig.

6 Get serious,

in a way 7 Children’s story with Truffula Trees 8 Playwright awarded the Grand Cross of the Order of St. Olav in 1893 9 Links things 10 Jaw 11 Unfriendly

crowd 12 Goings-on 13 Plant growing

in tufts 14 Results of cuts,

maybe

19 Lead runner,

for short? 21 Really excited 25 Game whose name comes from French for “five winning numbers” 26 Response from one who ain’t gonna

28 90° from

norte

30 Actress George of “Animal Kingdom” 32 Volatile

personality 34 One who might say “Nothing is real”

36 It might conclude with a shower, informally 38 “Care to show

me?”

39 Pub ___ 40 Climb

42 Heat extractors,

for short 44 Devils and

Angels, e.g. 45 Apothecary

measures 46 Cooperative hunter with the coral grouper 49 Romanian philosopher Cioran 50 Miniature 51 Labor

53 “___ Davis” (series starring Betty Gilpin)