NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 Forgo Uber or Lyft 9 Maxim, e.g.
15 Story involving Pecos Bill or Babe the Blue Ox
16 Grandmother, in Granada
17 Like a burglar or a ballerina, maybe
18 Website with the popular page r/explainlikeimfive
19 Producer with cameos in “Iron Man” and “Black Panther”
20 What thinning hair might affect
21 “___ Kapital”
22 D.C. fund-raising group
23 Without
24 Blondish
27 Discards in old maid
29 Org. for Big Red or Big Green
30 Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, for one
35 Digital photo addon
37 Best-selling author who used an awful lot of commas
38 “That’s … never gonna happen”
39 Protruding nail
40 One with more than two billion followers
41 It might be found on a belt
45 Diamond, on the Mohs scale
46 Number of capitals of Bolivia
47 Critical
49 “You made a mistake,” sarcastically
53 Faddish hairstyle of the mid-2010s
54 One who might get you into hot water?
55 Giving a tattoo
56 Halfway home
57 Samples
58 College party buys
Down
1 Vintage Pontiacs
2 Long blog entry, maybe
3 Skiing mecca in the Rockies
4 It’s a setup
5 Active in determining the outcome
6 Phoebe of “Fast Times at Ridgemont High”
7 Cream additive
8 Capital of Bolivia?
9 Fictional raiding archaeologist
10 Second son
11 Bros
12 Mythical enchantress 13 Set straight
14 Los ___, Calif.
20 Foes of Fido, stereotypically
22 Ideal
24 Impertinent sort
25 Dermatologist’s target
26 Who originated the modern image of Santa Claus
27 One out?
28 Eastern honorific
30 Features of many Disney films
31 Craft shop item with a seemingly redundant name
32 Helps for short people, for short
33 Link on a restaurant’s Yelp page
34 Freudian focus 36 “Science made clear,” per Jean Cocteau
40 Track-and-field star Jackie ___-Kersee
41 ___ one
42 Hit 2016 film set partly at sea
43 Cenobites
44 Wrigley brand
46 Activity at un bal masqué
48 Buggy area
49 Stop waxing, say
50 Instrument with metal keys
51 Group with a hand sign, maybe
52 Rival of Ford and Packard
54 Gander : goose :: ___ : swan