The new york times crossword

ACROSS

1 ___ Blackburn, Tennessee’s first female senator 7 Stay-athomes?

13 They may be iced for a hoppy birthday party

15 Maker of

sweet eggs 16 “In a Silent Way” trumpeter [~3:5] 18 Mohammed

bin Thani was the first one for Qatar 19 Amazingly

enough

20 ___ Annie of

“Oklahoma!” 21 Rendezvous

(with) 22 Stumblebum 23 Word with

shot or happy 24 Close

25 Some unaccredited universities, derisively [~57:1] 28 Singer Amos 30 Animal whose teeth are the strongest substance in the natural world 31 Makeup shades that match skin tones 34 Robotics

motor

36 Eves’

counterpart 38 1947’s ___-Hartley Act

40 Hardly parsimonious, in a saying [~1:454] 45 Steal 47 “Ratatouille”

protagonist 48 It may be iced for a happy birthday party 49 People based in Kykotsmovi Village, Arizona 50 Glowing lines 51 Stefani ___ Angelina Germanotta a.k.a. Lady Gaga 53 Diamond data 54 What you have to do to interpret the answers to 16-, 25- and 40-Across 57 Signs up 58 “Maybe” 59 “You sure

about that?” 60 Ones tackling their home

work

DOWN

1 “Yeah? And what if I don’t wanna?!” 2 Food, quaintly 3 Trusted 4 Garment that appropriately rhymes with “court” 5 Basted edge 6 Ulterior

motives

7 Role for Paul McCartney in the Beatles 8 Is calculating,

say

9 Magic org. 10 “Veep” co-star

Clea ___ 11 Like the left side of the aisle, traditionally 12 Reddit moderators, e.g., in brief

Billy Bratton

14 Endured

15 El Greco and

others

17 ___ Bell,

Emily Brontë pseudonym 23 Lula da ___, former president of

Brazil

25 Free from 26 When doubled,

a 2010s dance 27 Good cheer 29 Good card

game for the inebriated? 32 Suffix with

ranch 33 Treaded winter vehicles 35 “You betcha!” 37 Bias 39 Like the cream

of the crop 40 Apple store

employee? 41 Overhauled 42 Supreme god of ancient Egypt

43 “So true” 44 Felt

46 Sign of late

February 49 How a controversial topic might be debated 51 Work well

together 52 Aéroport

d’___ 55 LxWxH 56 Country music’s ___ Young Band