NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Mobile home? 11 Made fun of, in

a way 15 Bygone sportscaster with a statue outside Wrigley Field 16 Fan letters? 17 They may lead

to another story 18 “Popular Fallacies” byline, 1826 19 Not so apple

cheeked 20 “Sure, I’m

game” 22 Overzealous promgoer’s choice, maybe 23 Address add-on 25 Noted press conference rhymer 26 What some swatches preview 27 Where Achilles was dipped to make him invincible 28 Representer of

time, often 30 Part of a publicity agent’s job 31 Ochoa who was the first #1ranked golfer from Mexico 32 Waltz

component 36 O, more formally 37 Fee on some out-of-state purchases 38 Bats 39 Longtime

Capone rival 40 Lodging for a

night out? 41 Single mom in a

2000s sitcom 45 Party to the Oslo Accords, for short 46 In the loop, with

“in” 48 South Pacific

palm 49 Business that may be a zoning target 51 Walk

ostentatiously 52 Drop 53 Some contemporary ads 56 Chance upon 57 Unlikely pageant

winners 58 Muddles 59 Many a John

Wayne pic

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1 Scabbard 2 Base for Blackbeard 3 Fictional student at Riverdale High 4 Train track parts 5 Actors Talbot and Waggoner 6 Disney villain 7 Monopoly token 8 Spanish occupational suffix 9 Pitch producer 10 Dissolved, as bacteria exposed to antibodies 11 “Double” or

“triple” move 12 Certain medieval combatant 13 Rhett Butler’s “Frankly, my dear, I don’t give a damn,” e.g. 14 Nanny’s order 21 State with Leipzig and Dresden 23 Stick in a

cabinet 24 Objectivist Rand 27 X-ray ___ 29 Chihuahua cry 30 Stop 31 What a brush

may pick up 32 Ices 33 Common number of gondoliers 34 Intern’s duty,

maybe 35 Stop: Abbr. 36 Magician’s prop 38 Lightning bolt

shape 40 Mississippi site of Machine Gun Kelly’s last known bank robbery 41 Close again, as

a change purse 42 Emission of

ripening fruit 43 Ending with flag

or pall 44 Actress Milano

of “Charmed” 47 Marked acidity 48 Earl Scruggs’s

instrument 50 The E.P.A. issues them: Abbr. 51 Cogent 54 Dial unit 55 “Encore!,” to a

diva