The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Has nowhere to go but down 6 Scepter topper 9 It’s just the wurst! 13 Northernmost land in the Inner Hebrides 16 Prefix with nautical 17 Cut-and-paste tool for language learners 19 Piece of sensitive info, for short 20 Average 21 Name that sounds like two of its letters 22 Garden figure 25 Stoke

26 What a fitness coach likely leads 32 One-named rapper with the 2019 video “Can’t Explain It” 33 Puts on the line, say

34 Word after dead or data 35 Browser button 36 Bedouins, e.g. 37 Post-punk sort 38 Squeeze (out) 39 Classic Disney character who never speaks

40 It can come as a relief 41 In-N-Out Burger’s “Animal Style” burgers and fries, e.g.

44 [Gulp!]

45 Plus

46 Part of a church chorus 47 Theravada or Mahayana vis-àvis Buddhism 49 Japanese assent 52 Like some headphones 56 People of northeastern Canada 57 Eagerly starting, as one’s work 58 Streaks on the side of a wineglass 59 Word that becomes its own synonym if you change its first letter to WI 60 Bring to a boil

DOWN

1 Gluttons 2 Those: Sp. 3 Well overdue 4 Powder holder 5 G, in a C major scale

6 West African food staple

7 “Star Trek” actress Jeri

8 Big ___

9 In which you might see an échappé sauté 10 Out of the ordinary 11 Pretentious, in a way

12 The point of 9-Down? 14 Queer designation

15 Instrument played by a pannist

18 Dr. for kids 23 Daughter of Styx 24 Things sometimes frozen 25 Requirements with some applications 26 Can’t move a muscle, say 27 Crack under pressure 28 Boiling 29 Eponym for a mathematical pattern identified centuries earlier in India

30 “Eh, they can do that”

31 Spirit of a people 36 Range for a viola 37 Box-office revenue 39 Mostaccioli relative

40 Lead-in to male or female

42 Kind of monkey 43 Hwy. through Fargo and St. Paul 46 Tops

47 Fly (through) 48 “Our ___ always lasts longer than the happiness of those we ___”: Heraclitus 50 Request a hand, say 51 Composer Stravinsky 52 Love of the game? 53 Their sales were surpassed again by phonograph records in 2020 54 Inits. near New York’s Flushing Bay

55 Jeremy ___, first Asian-American N.B.A. champion