NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Wares at a medicine show 9 “Reckon so”

15 Reason to run

16 Betray, in a way 17 Keep it together 18 Irish form of “Jane”

19 N.Y.C. cultural landmark

20 Holds back, in a way

22 Uncool sorts 23 Business ___ 24 CBS drama from Dick Wolf 25 Like a wellbrushed canine, say

27 Italian pronoun 28 The N.F.L. mascot Roary, for one 29 Nickname for Capote

32 “Again … huh?!” 37 Competition that starts and finishes in a tie 38 Take stock after a defeat

39 Create a plot hole, say

40 Farm sounds

41 Trig function, in brief

42 Material for a lighter wheel 44 Keep out 45 Nickname that drops “vin”

48 Bond between 2006 and 2021 50 The ancient Egyptians believed they were created from the sun hitting the Nile 52 Starters can be found on it 53 Rude “Forget it!”

55 Helping hound 57 Pennsylvania city where Crayola is headquartered 58 Warned 59 Fifth-most populous city in California, after Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose and San Francisco

60 Bears

DOWN

1 Drink similar to a Cape Codder 2 “High-five!” 3 Gobs

4 Singer who owns Manderley Castle in Killiney

5 Word added as an intensifier 6 It’s not going to fly

7 Builder’s outdoor addition 8 Bouquet unit

9 They’re to be determined 10 Future-altering decision point, metaphorically 11 Burgundian grape

12 “Iolanthe” and “Candide,” for two

13 Charge too much

14 Tips

21 Tires out in a playground, perhaps 24 Literally, “dainty slice”

26 Location designed to attract whales 27 Appearance 28 Expensive boxes

30 ___ balls

31 Pac-12 squad

32 Scratch that 33 “Get outta here!”

34 Simple kind of question

35 Mean

36 Once, once 43 Pleasant cadences

44 Pot holder 45 Member of a triage team 46 Grandson of Adam

47 They’re bigger and lighter than skeletons

48 Pot holder 49 What a startled horse might do 51 Supervisory challenges 52 Whatsapp owner

54 Hawaiian word for a mackerel 56 Suffix for a rank