NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
Across
1 Remark made after catching someone by surprise 10 Alt-rock band with the 2001 hit album “Yankee Hotel Foxtrot” 15 Indoor
swimming pools 16 What might roll
in the leaves 17 Pet dogs and cats, affectionately 18 Surge protector? 19 Great work 20 Embroiled (in) 22 Stage that you might enter at night 23 Broadband
letters
25 Gangs
27 With 39-Across, answer to the question “Who’s the solver of this puzzle?”
28 Bird: Prefix
30 Pro with extensions, in brief
31 Big ticket item? 35 Leading disability rights activist in the 2020 documentary “Crip Camp” 36 Valuable
collection 37 Black ___
38 “Get out of here!” 39 See 27-Across 40 “Get me?,”
informally 43 Guileful
44 “Love Island”
airer
47 Item in Yo-Yo
Ma’s right hand 50 Sound of suffering … or pleasure
51 Whiff
52 Where the cattle drive in the western epic “Lonesome Dove” begins 55 Consideration when doubling a recipe, perhaps 56 “Don’t worry
about me”
57 Like Alaska on a
U.S. map, often 58 Quite a sight
Down
1 Going to get 2 Khaki alternative 3 Use a pick,
perhaps 4 Punches
5 ___ Pippig, three-time winner of the Boston Marathon 6 Word with sister
or story
7 Ride with a third
wheel
8 Outward attitude 9 Bed of roses, so
to speak 10 Character who’s striped and spotted? 11 Causes of some
brain freezes 12 Hot take? 13 Breakfast skillet 14 What a pointer finger can represent 21 Labor relief,
perhaps
23 Port ___, capital
of Mauritius 24 John of “The Big
Lebowski” 26 Squelched, with
“on”
27 His dying words were “There is another … Skywalker …” 28 Ghostlike, in a
way
29 ___ Thanh Nguyen, Pulitzer-winning author of “The Sympathizer” 31 Aids for stage
crews
32 Via, informally 33 University in
Georgia
34 Hold on to 35 Arcade game character with a propeller beanie 36 Word with store
or Story
41 ___ Greenwich, co-writer of “Do Wah Diddy Diddy” and “Da Doo Ron Ron” 42 Dispense 43 Muscly, in
modern lingo 44 Popular talk show of the 2010s 45 Achievement
indicator 46 Show of
contempt 48 Eponymous region of northern France 49 Slick
50 Thick locks 51 Title for a guru 53 Inits. on some
food cans 54 Knock