The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Tackle item hung from floaters

8 Can

15 Instruction to trick-or-treaters

16 Stanley Cup edge

17 Los Alamos or Oak Ridge

18 Rises in anger, maybe

19 Loan insurance org.

20 With 22-Across, pricey import

22 See 20-Across

23 Unit in a financial economics course, perhaps

25 Kennedy center?

26 Verb that becomes a five-letter alphabet run if you change its middle letter

28 Bit of greenery in a rock garden

29 Literally, “milk”

31 They begin in janeiro

32 Patient check-ins

35 Means of excellence?

36 “No need to blame yourself”

42 Tough

43 Event with ribs, in two senses

44 +/

45 Young partner

47 Golfer who qualified for a U.S.G.A. amateur championship at age 10

48 Locals go to all of them

49 French : -ant :: English : ___

50 When we forged ahead?

53 ___ Records, onetime label for the Kinks and Petula Clark

54 Kitchen mess

56 Beach breeze

58 Actor who played DJ Venus Flytrap on “WKRP in Cincinnati”

59 Two-character Mamet play

60 Name in 2008 Wall Street news

61 Reserves

DOWN

1 Wood source

2 Much obliged?

3 Where the Cedar Revolution took place

4 ___ Bleus, nickname for France’s World Cup team

5 Simple souls

6 Prefix with parasite

7 Paradoxical line of amazement

8 When the lights go out?

9 Director Nicolas

10 Whirlpool subsidiary

11 Coming from

12 Like some schools

13 Home to Mount Chimborazo, whose summit is the farthest point from Earth’s center

14 Keep in the back of one’s mind, perhaps

21 At least consider

24 Holds up

27 Pickle

29 Seesaw, for instance

30 Black ball

33 Stripling

34 Grp. concerned with digital learning

36 Culprits behind some forced retirements

37 Play area at a harvest festival

38 Flimflam

39 Camper’s fuel

40 Making out

41 Hanky, slangily

46 Concentration in chemistry

48 Tennis star with a famed

1995 comeback

51 Free ___

52 Big blow

55 Refrain syllable

57 Sylvester, to Tweety