The New York Times Crossword

45 Serenade need, perhaps 46 Cause of a feeding frenzy

47 Go to 50 Occupied leader? 51 Toponym in the dairy aisle 55 “Can you be less cryptic?” 58 Times when NPR listeners are engrossed enough to linger in their idling cars 59 Gloucester setting 60 Some bachelorette outings DOWN

1 Crux 2 Second, so to speak 3 Answer that would be more apt at 10 Down? 4 Entirety, redundantly 5 Actor Gulager of TV’s “The Tall Man”

6 Mixed up 7 Tropical island whose name comes from the Spanish for “snows” 8 Home to the Trap Music Museum: Abbr.

9 It has its limits 10 Romantic’s dream 11 “Ozymandias,” e.g. 12 Master: Abbr.

13 Jimmy Carter’s alma mater, briefly 14 Popular reunion swag 16 Backing 22 Count

23 ___ Ian, “Mean Girls” revenge seeker 24 Annoy downstairs neighbors, maybe 25 Opposite of 54Down 26 Topographical map feature 27 Stuffs 28 Self-described “practical originalist” of the Supreme Court 29 City where Marco Polo was held as a prisoner of war 30 “Stop” and “Open,” e.g. 32 Noted producer of blueberries 35 Discredited

36 German title 37 Went on and on and on and ... 42 Labor-intensive tattoo type 43 Beverage steeped outdoors 44 Ungrammatical title of a 1984 Cyndi Lauper hit 46 Stuffs

47 Kind of power supply

48 ___ Westover, author of the 2018 bestselling memoir “Educated” 49 Junket 50 Thickness 52 ___ Owens a.k.a. Queen Latifah 53 Court fig. 54 Opposite of 25Down

56 Suffix with Jacob 57 German granny

Answers to yesterday’s puzzle