The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Haberdashery accessory 8 Round measures 14 Homer with one R.B.I., in baseball lingo

16 Certain spuds 17 Clearheaded

18 Swear at

19 That’s so irritating! 20 Speed up

22 Demesne

25 Actress Fisher

27 The night before on the day after, maybe

28 Whom basilicas are often named after: Abbr. 31 Carried the day

32 Dine quickly

36 Tree that’s among the oldest known life forms on earth (4,800+ years)

37 They have little respect for brand names

38 Reuters competitor 39 “Better ___ …”

40 What a person in trouble — or performing on stage — wants 41 Boll weevil, for one 43 Unwanted crowd sounds 46 Kind of hickory 49 Hebrew for “father” 53 Island governed by three different countries 54 Center of a maze 57 Apothegms 58 Thou, for one 59 Things that are declared 60 Pippi Longstocking types

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1 Crimean War leader

2 Joe Hardy’s girlfriend in the Hardy Boys books 3 Wings

4 How die-hard defenders may hold out

5 Volcanic ___

6 Castro comrade 7 Locale of the 2018 Winter Olympics

8 Mock

9 Pointed out, in a way 10 Sides of Pac-Man’s mouth, essentially

11 “Huh!”

12 Things of interest to house buyers?

13 1040 fig.

15 Actual wording

21 Some trattoria preparations 23 Without hitting someone over the head, say

24 Historic destination in County Kerry, Ireland

26 Relative of a blind, in poker 27 Colonial rule in India

29 ___ place (part of a decimal) 30 Inscribed pillars

32 Fanta product

33 Name that’s an anagram of THE BAR

34 Place with drips, for short 35 Prepares for the bar? 36 Certain bra spec

42 One of the letters of NATO, in the NATO alphabet 44 Destructive 2017 hurricane 45 Go around

47 Actor Will of “The Waltons” 48 Head honcho

50 Actor Scott of “Happy Days” 51 Packed

52 Assets for QBs

53 “Pow!”

55 Sarge, for one

56 Unit in a calculation of power