NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 Sleeper’s support 8 Quick refresher 14 “The Spoonful of Milk” painter, 1912
15 Whom The New York Times co-named athlete of the year, with Babe Ruth, in 1920
16 Peppery orange- red condiment
17 What a single is worth
18 Toy inspector?
20 Hillary Clinton or Kamala Harris, once: Abbr.
21 Missed-the-turn maneuver
22 Not doing anything
26 What comes before a final
29 Some bands’ practice sessions
31 Place to get a platza treatment
32 Gymnast Raisman
33 Simplest choice
34 State of ___
35 Condone an action tacitly
38 Secretly pass gas?
39 M.L.B. great with a famous “unbreakable” streak, familiarly
40 Ottoman authority
41 ___ fusion
42 Antidiscrimination govt. agency
43 Nautical ropes
44 Do some branding?
45 Mexican freetailed ___ (world’s fastest horizontal flier)
46 Place to go, for short
48 “Damn right!”
54 One who is mean as the Dickens?
57 “Ohhh …”
58 “September 1, 1939” poet
59 “Never heard that before”
60 45-Across, for one
61 Bridesmaids’ expenses
Down
1 Great deal
2 “This can’t be happening”
3 Biter
4 Tennis great nicknamed “The Punisher”
5 Tool that you turn on
6 His “Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy” was the first album to debut at #1 on Billboard
7 What the “angler” on a deep-sea anglerfish can do
8 It may go on sale on November 1
9 Uncommon blood type, for short
10 “Admittedly …”
11 Group that had the first hardcore rap album to reach #1 on Billboard
12 Power couple?
13 Intro to cognition
15 Pouts
19 UPS fleet
23 Place for a working model
24 Get involved
25 They’re chosen for their highgrade potential
26 Red or green condiments
27 Fictional girl who says “I go to all the weddings in the White and Gold room and I usually stay for the reception”
28 What LASIK treats 30 Metric unit equal to 100 square meters
31 Take off, as a layer
33 Lots and lots
34 Popular TNT drama that starred Kyra Sedgwick
36 World capital whose name means “elephant trunk” in Arabic
37 As well
42 Polished off
43 Objects thrown out hotel windows, in a rock ’n’ roll cliché
45 Zero, in scoring slang
47 “___ there yet?”
49 Morning host Kotb
50 Discover
51 Pizza chain, informally
52 1990 World Cup final city
53 Milk sources for pecorino Romano
54 Personal ad abbr.
55 Cuppa from China
56 Hit head-on