NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Colorful Pillsbury cake with a portmanteau name
9 Designs
15 The Wright stuff?
16 Grading aid 17 Dave of rock 18 If the shoe doesn’t fit … wear it?
19 Some Renaissanceera scientists
21 Kind of garden 22 Input
25 Where things might be left hanging
26 270°
27 Male hedgehog 28 ___ Star 29 Something opened with a click
30 ___ bike
31 Brie, e.g.
34 Rest stop?
36 Personification of limpness 38 Zoom participants? 40 Head across the pond
41 Crackerjack
42 Linguist Chomsky 43 Copies, as from a CD
44 Risky thing to do close to flight time
46 1040, e.g. 47 ___ blue 48 Bother
49 Some nervous responses 51 Latitude 53 Thanksgiving aftermath, maybe 57 Prompt
58 Aspire
59 Small sample, to Brits
60 Like this clue among the Acrosses
DOWN
1 Ones closest to you, informally 2 Sch. whose athletes are nicknamed the Hoos
3 Annual coll. basketball event
4 Pop
5 Clear sky 6 Ranking component 7 Mathematical puzzle with movable disks 8 Snap
9 Neck problem 10 Homecomings? 11 Targets of leg raises, informally
12 Safe to skate on, say 13 Decorative features throughout Spain’s Alhambra palace 14 On the ___
20 One getting a big scoop? 22 Weakens 23 Lead-in to
“land” in a hit 2020 film
24 They vary according to income
26 Do some yardwork
28 Series set in Middle-earth, for short
29 Categorizes
31 Common additive to melted butter in Italian cuisine 32 Wrongdoing 33 Emulate Desdemona and Othello, in a way
35 Browser command 37 Befuddled
39 Like some chickens on farms 43 Miscreant
44 Start of a series 45 Impressive spot to sell out 46 Circular
47 Yielded
49 “The perfume of heroic deeds,” to Socrates 50 TV host Kotb 52 “___ has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words”: Dorothy Parker 54 Beginnings of life
55 Several of them are named for gods: Abbr. 56 A word with thou