NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Colorful custardy confection
10 Sudden inspirations
15 Waltz onomatopoeia
16 Love
17 Classic diner orders
18 Apply, as ointment
19 Kitchen brand whose name is an ambigram
20 Pit-___
21 More might come before it
22 Its employees might get under your skin
24 Thing with rings
25 Legal action
28 Some Disneyinspired Halloween costumes
30 “___ me!” (request to a fridge-goer)
31 Like blue and green ski trails, vis-à-vis black diamonds
33 Pep
36 Looks the other way
39 Modern ___
40 “A ___ place is in the House, and in the Senate” (bumper sticker)
41 Actress Kendrick
42 Sharon’s predecessor as Israeli P.M.
43 One of the Blues Brothers
45 One of the Coen brothers
48 Relative by marriage
50 Where to do as others do, it’s said
52 Stain
53 Sprinkling
56 Canon competitor
57 Street featured in Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” (that’s also 50-Across)
59 Still sticky
60 Make thin
61 Crushes it
62 Couple in the back of a car
DOWN
1 Snap
2 Component of three of the five French “mother sauces”
3 “That’s … never gonna happen”
4 “Double” or “triple” drink
5 Actress Taylor of TV’S “Bones”
6 Agatha Christie novel named after Death’s mount in Revelation
7 Make ___ for
8 Danger for desert hikers
9 Ending with four or six, but not five
10 Teri of “Mr. Mom”
11 Does laundry or pays bills, in modern lingo
12 Clearheaded
13 Novel content
14 Tell
21 Couldn’t let go of
22 Group portrayed in “Slacker” and “Reality Bites,” familiarly
23 Straighten
25 Proficient
26 ___ review
27 One quadrillion: Prefix
29 Trio of horrors?
32 Target
33 Rosso o bianco
34 Driver’s license fig.
35 Ren Faire concession
37 United competitor, once
38 “Heavens!”
42 Squarish
44 Not yet manifest
45 Spurns
46 Longtime “Inside the N.B.A.” commentator
47 Writer Jong
49 South America’s Río de la ___
51 Eponym of the World Series M.V.P. award
53 “Have no ___ of perfection — you’ll never reach it”: Dalí
54 Suffix with towel
55 Melancholiac’s list
57 Dictionary abbr.
58 Rapa ___ (Easter Island)