NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Breakout
performance
9 Some diner
orders
15 Mocking response to whining
16 Stick
17 “Did you really
just say that?” 18 Midwest city that shares its name with a suburb of Phoenix
19 One way to take a stand, ironically?
20 End up
choosing
22 Close
24 Speeds
25 Serves the
purpose of
28 Brand with the flavors Grabbin’ Grape and Blazin’ Blueberry
29 Active ingredient in marijuana, for short
32 They might claim that things are fixed 34 Bay ___ (certain
horse)
36 Bit of metal
texturing
37 Follower of twenty- or thirty
38 Hint
39 Org. behind the Carl Sagan Center
40 Hardly a
cheapskate
42 Cardi B’s “___
Bad”
43 Choler
44 Setting in
Marvel Comics 45 Wind with a three-octave range
47 Where majors have majors, in brief?
48 Track #1 on the Beatles compilation album “1”
51 That’s a wrap! 55 Pioneering Ford
auto
56 Ticket line?
58 Handsome guy 59 When Harry first shared a ride with Sally, e.g.
60 Father of
Hecate
61 Person who is
willfully alone?
Down
1 Plants
2 Neighbor of a
Malay
3 ___ much
4 Revolutionary inventions in the cooking world?
5 Campaign Q&A 6 [Thinking …]
7 Put down, in a
way
8 Put down, in a
way
9 Study of touch, as with smartphone screens
10 Artist behind the best-selling album of the 21st century (30+ million units)
11 Close-to-theground sports feat
12 “My ___!”
13 Pseudonymous children’s author Hunter 14 With 55-Down, oceanographer’s aid 21 Even more,
perhaps
23 Camp show grp. 25 Bidding
considerations 26 Traffic
directors?
27 It’s “rarely pure and never simple,” Oscar Wilde once wrote
28 Target of some
trimming
30 Insight offerer 31 Baller, in old
lingo
33 Do in the
evening
35 Lead-in to core
or fest
38 Bikini, e.g.
40 Natural material used for fuel
41 Kung ___
46 Refute
47 Title of hits by Garth Brooks and Lil Nas X 48 Rich source
49 Something carbon monoxide lacks 50 Blocks
52 Philanderer
53 The “A” of
A.D.L.
54 “I ___ saw true beauty till this night”: Romeo 55 See 14-Down 57 Brooks of
“Spaceballs”