The new york times crossword

ACROSS

1 Remark made after catching someone by surprise 10 Alt-rock band with the 2001 hit album “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” 15 Indoor swimming pools

16 What might roll in the leaves

17 Pet dogs and cats, affectionately 18 Surge

protector? 19 Great work 20 Embroiled

(in)

22 Stage that you might enter at night 23 Broadband

letters 25 Gangs

27 With 39-Across, answer to the question “Who’s the solver of this puzzle?” 28 Bird: Prefix 30 Pro with extensions, in brief

31 Big ticket

item? 35 Leading disability rights activist in the 2020 documentary “Crip Camp” 36 Valuable

collection 37 Black ___ 38 “Get out of

here!”

39 See

27-Across 40 “Get me?,”

informally 43 Guileful 44 “Love Island”

airer

47 Item in Yo-Yo Ma’s right hand 50 Sound of suffering … or pleasure 51 Whiff

52 Where the cattle drive in the western epic “Lonesome Dove” begins 55 Consideration when doubling a recipe, perhaps 56 “Don’t worry

about me” 57 Like Alaska on a U.S. map, often

58 Quite a sight

DOWN

1 Going to get 2 Khaki

alternative 3 Use a pick,

perhaps 4 Punches

5 ___ Pippig, three-time winner of the Boston Marathon 6 Word with sister or story

7 Ride with a

third wheel 8 Outward

attitude

9 Bed of roses,

so to speak 10 Character who’s striped and spotted? 11 Causes of some brain freezes

12 Hot take? 13 Breakfast

skillet

14 What a pointer finger can represent 21 Labor relief,

perhaps

23 Port ___, capital of Mauritius 24 John of

“The Big Lebowski” 26 Squelched,

with “on” 27 His dying words were “There is another … Skywalker …” 28 Ghostlike, in a

way

29 ___ Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzerwinning author of “The Sympathizer” 31 Aids for stage

crews

32 Via,

informally 33 University in

Georgia 34 Hold on to 35 Arcade game character with a propeller beanie

36 Word with

store or Story 41 ___ Greenwich, co-writer of “Do Wah Diddy Diddy” and

“Da Doo Ron Ron” 42 Dispense 43 Muscly, in

modern lingo 44 Popular talk show of the 2010s 45 Achievement

indicator 46 Show of

contempt 48 Eponymous region of northern France

49 Slick

50 Thick locks 51 Title for a guru 53 Inits. on some

food cans 54 Knock

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