The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Covered up

5 Robinson of TV’s “I Think You Should Leave” 8 Charity bowling event, e.g.

13 Home to Waianuenue Falls 14 0, for 0° 15 Conspicuously unfamiliar party guest, informally 16 One-___ punch (kung fu technique) 17 Frequent rock soloist

19 Liberal leader? 20 Words before “Yes, I cried, yes I cried” in “Return of the Mack” 21 “When has that ever been true?” 23 Amusement, online

24 Trash collector 25 ___ theory

28 Filter feeder’s fodder

30 “In that case, move on!”

33 Table salt is made of them

34 Some natural history museum exhibits, for short 35 Brand image 36 Create a diversion from a damaging issue, in politics 38 Podcaster Marc

39 Names 40 Senegal-to-Togo dir.

41 Actress Chaplin 42 Show of hands? 47 Collection of 10 directives written by Vladimir Lenin 50 Animal whose name sounds like you?

51 Place to get a cold brew

52 “Bearing gifts we traverse ___” (“We Three Kings” lyric)

53 Mohawk Valley city

54 “Now ___ even” 55 Took off

56 2020 Christopher Nolan sci-fi thriller 57 Yearbook grp. 58 Licks, say

DOWN

1 Pants material

2 Pants material

3 Role for MalcolmJamal Warner on “The People v. O. J. Simpson” 4 “Gah!”

5 Keep busy

6 On the whole

7 Site for a movie poster? 8 Commonsensical 9 Actor John of Broadway’s “Carousel” 10 Unfooled by

11 Congressman Kinzinger

12 “Gimme, gimme, gimme!”

14 Casino game that’s 100% luck 18 Beings made from smokeless fire, in the Quran

20 Elided pronoun 22 British composer Gustav

25 Warehouse cost 26 Brand whose last letter is in the shape of its product

27 Saturday morning character 28 Christchurch resident

29 Spot for a hairpin 30 They’re not the main event

31 Artist in the avantgarde Fluxus movement

32 Actress Glazer

34 Old automaker with the models Firedome, Fireflite and Firesweep 37 W.W. II aircraft carrier

38 May celebrants 41 ___ citato (in the work quoted: Lat.) 42 Enchantress in Greek myth

43 Fisher with a stownet

44 FAQ checkers 45 “Gimme, gimme, gimme!”

46 Longtime mint brand that doesn’t contain any mint 47 Appear alongside 48 Sneaky ___

49 Line from a bit? 52 [So adorable!]