NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Tricky spot to be in? 10 COPY, perhaps 15 Coffee order 16 Seasonal shop, e.g. 17 Adherent to the motto “Fortune favors the bold” 18 Wrong 19 Pretentious display 20 Start fishing

21 Org. with many overseas workers 22 What makes the short list?

23 Prefix with -centric 25 Father of Calypso 28 Nothing to write home about 29 Something you might get at the beach

30 Volleyball position 32 Large storage unit 34 Home contractor specialty, for short 36 Word with bread or water

37 Certain marine herd 41 Lickspittle

45 Loved, with “up” 46 Word that retains its meaning when preceded by “no” 48 Be a pest, in a way 49 Took a hard fall, informally 50 Something a TV station may not earn money from, for short 51 Abbr. in calculus 52 Verdant 53 Declaration of innocence

57 Boy who said “Sure, Charlie Brown, I can tell you what Christmas is all about” 58 “Beowulf” and “Aeneid,” for two 59 Warmest month in Patagonia

60 Is shocked or horrified by the image of, jocularly 61 First permanent settlement by people of European descent in what is now Utah

62 M.I.T.’S sports team name

DOWN

1 Latin music duo 2 “Ain’t it so?”

3 Big picture

4 Ticks off

5 Corp. with a red umbrella implied in its logo

6 What classic sonnets do

7 N.B.A. legend Olajuwon

8 Simple dance 9 Taycan and Macan 10 Head-in-the-clouds sort 11 What makes clam chowder “Manhattan” rather than “New England” 12 How an imitator or

silly person acts 13 Words of

prohibition

14 Here’s even more:

Abbr.

24 Rock that’s graded 26 Fashion trend embraced by Fendi and Versace 27 Potentially

prophetic child

31 Lil Baby’s genre 33 The first “T” of TOTY [___ of the Year award] 35 Renaissance-era

cup

37 Bug catcher 38 Coming down

hard?

39 Keyed in (to) 40 Item on a janitorial

cart

42 Certain lap dog 43 Not quite boiling 44 Pokémon’s Gary

and Ash, e.g. 47 Verbal interruption

and hesitation 54 Prologue follower 55 Woven, as a

37-Down

56 Choice of one who’s

too hard to please 57 “Titanic” co-star,

familiarly