The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Author of “The Witches” and “The Twits”
5 One might be raised by a skeptic
9 Energy sources, of a sort
14 Side opposite 41-Across in a
sci-fi clash
16 Bedizen
17 Worked on together
18 Event whose organizers are concerned with brand recognition?
19 Grate stuff
20 “Live” co-host beginning in 2001
21 Pre-commencement activity
22 Skills that not many people know about
25 Steals, slangily
27 Keep off the court?
28 Sticks in water
29 Symbol of San Francisco 33 Promises
37 British pop star who sang
2012’s “R.I.P.”
38 A.F.C. South squad
40 Leak proof?
41 See 14-Across
43 Patches, say
44 School science project involving a vegetable and a voltmeter
48 Faces of the internet?
49 Organic fuel
50 Barb
53 In a relationship
54 Aria, e.g.
56 “Done!” 57 What takes all types?
58 Removes from the mound, in baseball lingo
59 What “M” and “F” are both short for
60 Harper of “No Country for Old Men”
DOWN
1 “Star Trek” character played by 12-Down
2 “That’s the way the cookie crumbles”
3 Place for the self-righteous, metaphorically
4 ___ slip
5 Traditional feature of a Hindu bride
6 A.D.A.-compliant, in a way
7 Expansive
8 Bond
9 First supermodel to produce her own posters and calendars
10 Page-previewing program
11 “The Age of Bronze” artist
12 Actor Spiner
13 Busses near Paddington
Station? 15 Certain school clique
21 Literally, “my master”
23 “So sorry, that was totally the wrong thing to say!”
24 Bolshevik’s foe
25 Main ingredient in the curry dish kosha mangsho
26 Curling target
30 Groaner
31 Like most of Mars
32 Freestyles, perhaps
34 Shticks
35 “___ World” (“Sesame
Street” segment)
36 Crack, so to speak
39 Stir-fry ingredient
42 Unrelenting
43 Used as a rendezvous point
44 Insignificant
45 Birthplace of Malcolm X
46 Unit of cryptocurrency
47 Adjusts to zero, in a way
51 They might be tapped out
52 Lizzo title lyric repeated three times before “Make a girl go crazy”
54 “How ___ …”
55 What curly brackets denote, in mathematics