NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Capital of Chad 9 Charge 15 Face-to-face

challenge 16 Yes-man 17 Folklore character whose stockings are tied with eyelashes 18 Course coup 19 Some indie

releases

20 ___ Ex (video game franchise) 22 Devotee

23 ’70s sitcom

title role

26 Bar assembly 28 Ruby and

sapphire 29 Perp’s mark, in

cop slang 31 110%, perhaps 32 Exercises one’s

discretion 33 Language introduced in 1995

34 “I’ll never tell” 37 ___ jazz 38 Forest

swingers 39 Lane on the eastern boundary of Covent Garden 40 Unlikely race

favorite 41 Baseboard

fastener 42 Kicks in

43 Tony soprano? 46 Paid tribute to 47 Riding on 48 Hedging word 51 Stir up 53 Hands

56 Brie ___, star of 2019’s “Captain Marvel”

57 Airy treat 58 Indicate

agreement 59 Stand with

dogs, say

Down

1 Mark down 2 Stop discussing 3 Undirected

sessions

4 Music genre

prefix

5 “Big whoop” 6 Couldn’t

contain

7 Going by 8 Leopards and

anacondas, e.g. 9 HQ with

runways 10 Long faces? 11 Cabinet piece 12 Fail to

appreciate 13 Key explorers 14 Viewed 21 Browns,

perhaps 23 Tending to

change 24 Croak

25 Sad end? 26 They’re planted by plants 27 Denizens of New York City sewers, per an urban legend 30 Suffragist Elizabeth ___ Stanton 31 Tom Wolfe’s

“___ in Full” 32 State bordering the Pacific 33 Banned

outdoor game 35 Shepard who wrote “Pretty Little Liars” 36 Novelist

O’Brien 41 Tries for, in a

way

42 Source of fine

wool

44 Adapt, say 45 “___ You” (1975 Minnie Riperton hit) 46 Presidential dog of the 1940s 48 Ancient Dead

Sea kingdom 49 Pop star with top 40 hits in the 1950s, ’60s, ’70s and ’80s 50 Scene of W.W. I

fighting 52 Fighter in the fictional Battle of Isengard 54 Shamus

55 ___ factor