NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

Across

1 “Don’t be ___” 6 “Aren’t I

somethin’?!” 10 Account

14 Class some people are dying to get into? 16 Billboard number,

maybe

17 Features of some cheesy dinner parties?

18 Name that means

“no one” in Latin 19 What follows both the living and dead? 20 Oscar-nominated

director Gerwig 21 Traffic director 22 Big part of

California? 23 Woman’s name that becomes a country when its vowels are swapped 25 Kitchen variety 28 Towers from which muezzins announce calls to prayer 32 Xeriscape garden

plants

33 Heroine of novels set at Lilac Inn, Shadow Ranch and Red Gate Farm

34 UNESCO World

Heritage listings 35 Example of

exemplary service 36 Opening gambit

of sorts

37 Little buggers 39 Suddenly think of 40 Possible result of

a major fall 41 Some names on

buildings

42 Runs

43 What I might be 44 Get metal from, in

a way

47 How theremin

music sounds 50 W.W. II hero who retired from the mil. to run for president

53 “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” character 54 Group cultivated

by a recruiter 56 More than a

twinge 57 Creatures that can regrow a lost tooth up to 50 times

58 Defeater of

Jörmungandr 59 Canceled, to a

philatelist

60 Like electromagnetic radiation with the shortest wavelength

Down

1 Call upon arriving

home, maybe 2 Privy to

3 Meaning of the Persian suffix “-stan”

4 Business abbr. 5 “Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner!”

6 Dating preference 7 Buckets 8 Pulls and analyzes online information, e.g. 9 Core group 10 Boundary for “first and goal” plays

11 Quad ___ (2022 record jump achieved by Ilia Malinin)

12 Fancy wheels 13 Thames town 15 Preceder of

Christmas 21 Exchange rings? 22 One who’s out

and about? 24 First national magazine to feature Steve Jobs on the cover

25 Amazed reactions 26 Zaphod Beeblebrox in “The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy,” for one 27 Kind of drawing 28 Knight clubs 29 Muse of lyric

poetry 30 Barbershop

fixture?

31 Cobs, e.g. 33 Highly trained

body

38 Place to find a hammer and anvil

41 “Nothing ___” 44 Row

45 A good deal 46 Say again 48 Magazine that debuted in France in 1945 and the U.S. in 1985

49 Joy of MSNBC 50 Calamity 51 Temple building 52 Actress

Lanchester 54 Cross shape 55 Grp. that might get a talking-to by the principal