The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Rush order
10 Capital on the Gulf of Guinea
15 Bet involving score totals
16 Sight at low tide
17 Mental or fiscal tightness
18 Just under way, so to speak
19 “90 Day Fiancé” channel
20 TV lingo for using established
hits to prop up weaker shows
22 Govt. plant inspector
24 The Greek philosopher Empedocles leapt into its flames, in legend
25 Annual celebration during which sweeping is taboo
27 Car model whose name becomes an N.B.A. superstar when its middle letter is removed
29 Move, informally
30 Needing a jolt
33 Iranian port near the Iraq border
35 Out of whimsy
36 In the works
37 Waifs
38 Latin American spread
39 First two words of Shelley’s “Ozymandias”
40 Falling hard?
42 Bivouac sight
43 Term terminus
44 Roves (about)
48 Someone who has it all
51 Favorite
52 Favorite novelist of Twihards
53 As you like it
55 Sty sound
56 Completely routs
57 Try to get down
58 Got in a lather, say
DOWN
1 Admit
2 Cricket fields, e.g.
3 Swag for sale
4 Sounds of hesitation
5 Give notice
6 Access to a country club, in brief?
7 “Better off not knowing” 8 Hockey players who face off in a face-off
9 Superman’s dog
10 Havens
11 “Parasite” co-star ___ Wooshik
12 Considered a participant
13 Chaparral or savanna
14 Calculus prerequisite: Abbr.
21 1914 Freud essay that introduced the concept of “ego ideal”
23 Mostly online writing genre
26 Kingdom whose capital is
Nuku’alofa
28 Effervescence
29 Tartare topper
30 “___ is the beginning of wisdom … not the end”: Spock
31 Shortly
32 “Right back atcha” 34 Hippie confab
36 Ancient siege weapon for launching stones
38 Florida city with a large Cuban American population (70+%)
41 Electron attractors
43 Malt liquor bottle, in slang 45 Where some high schoolers get DNA tests?
46 Burrow (into)
47 Marengo, for Napoleon 49 “Jobs vs. Gates: The Hippie and the ___” (2015 TV movie)
50 Hip-hop subgenre
52 Slush pile contents: Abbr. 54 Greeting in Rio