NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 Everyone’s talking about them

10 Kind of infection

15 Water color

16 See 22-Across

17 Routine part of a routine

18 Joe Louis in Detroit, for one

19 Controls

20 Executive check

22 16-Across squared

24 Cowboys’ headgear

25 Who said “The greatest victory is that which requires no battle”

28 Short accompanying article

29 Near

31 Surname of father-and-son N.B.A. coaches Paul and Stephen

33 Passing stat: Abbr.

34 Border county of New York or Pennsylvania

36 Ear-related prefix

37 More

widespread

40 Provider of inside info?

43 Natalie of “Today”

45 Like best friends

46 “Saving Private Ryan” or “Apocalypse Now”

47 Martin who directed “Norma Rae”

48 Superhero misidentification

50 Sickens with sweetness

54 Apt surname for a librarian

55 Kowtowed (to)

57 Aunt in “Oklahoma!”

58 Patronizing types

59 Certain textile workers

60 Took control of

Down

1 Hope at the Oscars, e.g.

2 Half of hexadeca

3 A’s, but not B’s or C’s

4 Singing and

dancing, say

5 Descriptor for most scarves, but not gloves

6 Sticky sandwich, for short

7 Words before “New York” and “Paris,” in song titles

8 Salad veggie

9 Hallucinate

10 Big box store

that sells boxes

11 Blood clots

12 Question of humanity that has never been answered

13 Gets through

14 Gets word

21 Ref. work that took more than 70 years to complete

23 Ravel’s “Gaspard de la ___”

25 ___ for life

26 In the end

27 Off the market

28 Covers with chimney grime

30 Compliment to an outfielder

32 Excel command

35 Dramatic beginning

38 Travel item for bookworms

39 Rick Ross, Roddy Ricch and Rakim

41 French film festival fare

42 Snacks for squirrels

44 Short, for short 46 Maybe too alert

47 Syndicate, in a way

49 City at one end of Lake Pontchartrain, for short

51 They can be Sapphic

52 Log time

53 Catalyzed, with “up”

56 Cubby hole?