NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 750-milliliter bottles

7 ___ C. J. Walker, first American woman to become a selfmade millionaire, per Guinness 12 Pretend

13 Flowers known botanically as Leucanthemum vulgare

15 Lady Gaga album named for her aunt 16 Stops being stubborn

18 “There’s no accounting for taste”

21 Birthplace of Buddha

22 More spacious 23 Walks in the park 25 Carries on

26 Up

27 Compliment to a chef

29 Tartarus, by another name

30 Prefix with night or day

31 Mimicked

33 Tepid assessment 35 Actress whose nickname derives from her middle name, Stamatina 36 Family prefix 38 Make it, gamewise 40 Eponym of a redand-white heraldic rose

42 Decorated athlete whose name could be parsed as “zero” + “loss”

44 Nikkie ___, beauty vlogger with more than 13 million followers on Youtube

46 “Way to go!” 48 Replenish 49 Eliminate from

contention

54 More affected 55 Outfit with flaps

and snaps

56 Pays in the Alps?

57 Move around 58 “The Divine Miss M” 59 Thought and thought and thought (about)

DOWN 1

Challenging setting for the 2020 Olympics men’s road cycling course 2 Playing past regulation, informally

3 ___ house

4 Letters

5 Had a craving 6 Take time to think

about something 7 By ethical

standards

8 Cousin of a lutz 9 Reese in “Touched by an Angel” 10 Affirmative on the U.S.S. Enterprise 11 State emblem of Israel

14 Target

17 Member of the A.F.C. team with most division titles 19 ___ y pimienta

20 “4 real?!?” 23 Lesser-used passages

24 Total

26 British singer with the hits “How We Do (Party)” and “Your Song” 28 They may be mixed 30 Network with Joy Reid’s “The Reidout”

32 “I like telling ___ jokes. Sometimes he laughs!” 34 French Calvinist 37 Check attachment 39 Escape

41 Sap

43 Longhaired star of 1950s TV

45 Quickly put down 47 Give a lift

50 Suffix akin to “-o-rama”

51 “You don’t have to tell me!”

52 One of the few places where traffic is appreciated 53 Ticked (off)