The New York Times

ACROSS

1 Wild party 5 With 5-Down, some emergency bulletins 10 Certain breakdancing move 14 Piece by Puccini 15 Lover of Giorgetta in Puccini’s “Il Tabarro” 16 Native language of 50 million citizens of India

17 Spill a shipment of bowling balls? 20 Gets down cold 21 Kind of engine 22 Person not to be trusted

23 “I knew I was going ___ when it was taking longer and longer to wash my face”: Harry Hill 24 Works during a slow day at the restaurant? 30 Hidden drawback 31 “Paradise Lost” and others 32 Certain deposit 34 “The Game of Strategic Conquest” 35 Word with rule or tackle 36 Advantage 37 Do drugs 38 Piece of curling equipment 39 Poker slang for three of a kind

40 Go on a date with a honeybun? 43 Body part that’s also a woman’s name

44 SOS response

45 A bit of resistance 48 Gets away 52 Is unable to get away, say … or a hint to 17-, 24- and 40-Across? 55 One target of doxycycline 56 French setting for Puccini’s “Il Tabarro” 57 “This round’s ___”

58 Sad sound 59 Half of a 1960s folk/pop group 60 Run over

DOWN

1 Lip ___ 2 Concentration 3 Plops down 4 Series of goals 5 See 5-Across 6 Makes a duck face, say

7 Part of an Instagram profile 8 Part of one’s mental life 9 “Good ___!” 10 “You got that right about me!” 11 Advantages 12 Not going anywhere 13 Zero

18 Tract of lowgrowing vegetation 19 Separates, in a sense

23 There are more of these in the U.S. in October than any other month, surprisingly 24 Pants measure 25 Adrift

26 Cons

27 Speak out 28 “Honest!”

29 Not hold back fury 30 High-quality French vineyard 33 Start of this clue 35 Endurance of hardship without complaint 36 Polar bear, to seals

38 Font flourish 39 How often Bette Davis won Best Actress

41 Baby rabbit 42 Pageant identifiers 45 Kind of artist 46 Dish that might be seasoned with adobo sauce 47 Actress Kendrick of “Pitch Perfect” 48 It destroyed the town of Mascali in 1928

49 What benchwarmers ride, with “the” 50 1815 novel made into films in 1996 and 2020 51 Provide initial funding for 53 Org. whose vision is “a great public school for every student” 54 Barely perceptible, say