NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Amanuenses

8 Clog

13 Famous gamesaving 1954 World Series play by Willie Mays

15 Many a Zoroastrian 16 Nice place to read

or watch TV

18 Mad about

19 It might be dry or

biting

20 Raise people’s

spirits?

22 Phrase that’s often contracted … or suffix for something contracted 24 Oozed

25 Location of a daith

piercing

26 ___ Cherry, singer with the 1988 hit “Buffalo Stance” 28 Long account 29 Humblebrag, of a

sort

30 Order against

disclosure

32 Bad

34 Romps

36 This clue’s answer might contain more than seven letters 38 Bad

42 Gave a hard time 43 Fusses

45 Met for a few hours

in the evening? 46 Makers of Deep Blue, the first computer to beat a world chess champion under tournament conditions 47 Potato chips, in

Britain

49 One in a nursery

rhyme pocketful 50 Figures in “Knives Out” and “The Maltese Falcon” 53 Peter Pettigrew’s Animagus, in the Harry Potter books 54 ___ space 55 Keeping one’s thoughts to oneself, say

57 One who’s a

charmer, maybe 58 Traditional Polynesian beverage that numbs the mouth 59 Brined white

cheeses

60 “The White House” vis-à-vis the executive branch of government, e.g.

DOWN

1 In an agitated state 2 Cardamom-containing coffeehouse creation

3 At ease

4 Unsalted, perhaps

5 “The beginning and end of all music,” per Max Reger 6 Shared values 7 September/ October zodiac symbol

8 Agreed

9 Part of a 45-Across 10 Marvel Comics character played multiple times by Ian Mckellen

11 Skip or Reverse 12 Dole Plantation, e.g. 14 Game where It always counts 17 Eminem track with the Guinness World Record for “most words in a hit single” 21 Washington hub that’s a portmanteau of two cities

23 Shot only you can take

27 “Peas” or “golf balls”

29 Apple product 31 Creative works with net proceeds? 33 Food item often accompanied by tzatziki

35 Word before or after “first” 36 Ochlocracy

37 “You know what you did!”

39 Average American, allusively

40 Press secretary’s asset, informally 41 “We did it!”

42 Scam

44 Gadget that might be disguised as something else 47 Alternatives to baskets

48 A bad one is your fault

51 Designer Wang

52 Race winner’s prize 56 Ring call, in brief