NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Fast food order

6 Balderdash

14 Making of an impression? 15 1962 #1 hit for the Crystals featuring a biker on the record sleeve 17 Rock genre

18 Bit of census data

19 Slips

20 ___ hulu manu (feathery adornment) 21 Actor James of “The Blacklist” 22 People with a language of the same name 23 Steamed source of stimulation 25 Famille member 26 Voting rights activist who founded Fair Fight Action 30 Russian dumplings

31 Facility

32 Some undergrad degs.

35 Where an athlete might dunk

37 Miser

39 Org. tracking metadata 40 A sculpture of a threelegged one is considered lucky in feng shui

42 ___ James, the so-called “King of the Slide Guitar” 43 “You have to look at the bigger picture” 45 Group whose logo is a mirror ambigram 48 N.B.A. great Baylor

49 Goddess: Lat. 50 Cavort

53 Central square, perhaps

54 Though commonly known as vegetables, botanically they are fruit

55 Wicca symbol 57 Two-time Grammy winner Bryson 58 Condiment made with peanuts 59 Conversation starter

60 Dodge S.U.V.S 61 Pal of Kent and Lane DOWN

1 Figure skating move based on the arabesque in ballet 2 Theatrically exaggerated behavior 3 Population calculation scope

4 Cuup products 5 Olive ___

6 Comic relief role in “Tarzan” 7 1970 music documentary that won an Oscar for Best Original Score 8 Hard wood 9 Goes for the gold?

10 What comes before the fall? 11 Features of many season premieres 12 Stomach 13 “Great” man 16 Zither relative 20 Flatter effusively 23 Italian for “tied together” 24 Modern and Classical periods

27 Parent of a cygnet 28 Antithesis of a hedonist

29 Noted spelling expert

32 Focus of literary agents

33 Obliging 34 “Later!”

36 Not fancy in the least

38 Ashram sounds 41 Fast-food chain with the slogan “Unfreshing Believable” 43 Three-beat gait 44 Annual event with Ski Slopestyle and Skateboard

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45 Starters, for short

46 It’s found at the bottom of the food pyramid 47 Language family of Swahili or Zulu

51 ___ Milà, landmark building in Barcelona

52 2011 Pulitzer winner Jennifer 54 Spa offering 56 Word after throw or scatter 57 Aromatic noodle soup