The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Source of embarrassment for some public officials 10 Skedaddled 15 How buzzkills

end things 16 Golfer’s

collection 17 Numismatist’s

collection 18 Mexican

sandwich 19 ___ sample 20 One-named singer with the 2007 #1 hit “Don’t Matter” 21 Building block

makeup 22 Essential

24 First U.S. team to win the N.H.L. Stanley Cup (1928) 26 Diner order that

gets filled? 28 Life instinct, in

psychology 29 Reverses

course 32 Ceiling

35 “___ said …” 36 Write a think

piece, say 37 Drifter

38 ___ Mosby, main role on “How I Met Your Mother” 39 Some polygamous figures

41 Niche form of

architecture? 42 Many workers in Japan’s Lake Hamana 43 Sharp-looking

footwear? 48 “The Yankee Years” memoirist 49 Home of the first known pizza parlor 50 Certainty 52 Some undergrad degs.

53 Not just in

one’s head, say 54 Kamehameha

Day observers 56 Little buddy 57 From that point

on 58 Simplifies 59 Cozy curl-up

spots

Down

1 Verbal outpouring, in slang

2 Dead 3 Sobriquet for filmdom’s Daniel LaRusso, with “The” 4 Common suffix

for 7-Downs 5 Areas

6 Ursine sci-fi

creature

7 Atom with an electronic imbalance

8 G in jazz 9 Students with 300 and 400 classes: Abbr. 10 Audit, as a

class

11 Sticking points 12 One-named singer with the 2013 #1 hit “Royals” 13 Bury 14 Bulgaria’s Simeon I and Simeon II 21 Actress Tia of “Wayne’s World”

23 They have hops 25 Get back

together 27 Ones who

know the way? 30 Underdog

victory

31 “Blue” or

“bearded” bird 32 Act without

originality 33 Deviation 34 Has hold of 37 Stud poker variation, informally 39 Skimpy

swimwear 40 Sloppy planting

job?

41 Refer (to) 43 Backstabber 44 ___ al Ghul

(Batman foe) 45 Devices that introduced the click wheel 46 Norwegian king

until 1000 47 One spreading

seed 51 Something that people wish you would take when you leave 54 Noted mansion

man, for short 55 Jr.’s son