NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Bill for expensive clothing?

6 Go back and forth, say

10 Farm youth

14 Show that featured the first lesbian kiss on prime-time TV (1991)

15 Get in position? 16 Once again 17 Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty, for two 19 Reincarnated one, maybe

20 Early home décor 21 Shade similar to coral

23 Plugging away 24 Like the light at sundown

25 Plot lines for many early Marvel films 29 More than a scuffle 30 Made a good point?

31 Pepper introduced in the 1960s: Abbr. 34 Producers of green eggs (but not ham) 35 Sacher ___ (chocolate/apricot confection)

36 Who talks on the phone a lot 37 Where Scrabble was invented: Abbr. 38 Weight of valuables 39 Didn’t take a card 40 Tip line?

43 Chairs usually have them 45 Tower of London feature

46 Eludes

47 Didn’t hide one’s opinion 50 Ingredient in some lip balms

51 General recommen-dation? 54 Land vandalized by the Vandals 55 Subject of a firstperson narrative 56 In after being out 57 Residents of the Forest of Fangorn 58 After-beach wear 59 No-good conniver

DOWN 1

“Giant ___,” soft sculpture of a sandwich at the Whitney Museum 2 Nonclerical

3 Resort with a “no snowboarders” rule 4 Rescues from a junkyard, say 5 Babycakes 6 Cheeky attire? 7 Lose oomph 8 “Chances” follower 9 “You betcha!” 10 What an extended thumb and pinkie by your face might mean

11 Doggedly determined

12 Likely candidate for a breakdown 13 Sound of a bow shooting an arrow 18 What a pluviometer

measures

22 In the thick of 24 “Sounds amazing, but I really shouldn’t” 25 Divination

observation 26 Protagonist of Pixar’s “Your Friend the Rat”

27 “That was so

fortunate for me” 28 Book that gets reread from the beginning around autumn

32 Pirate’s potable 33 Pool maker 35 Eatery not known

for its entrees

36 Big house

38 Give up

39 Barware for making grasshoppers and whiskey sours 41 Philosopher

Friedrich

42 Leave sitting in a

breeze, say 43 Relative of an

apothegm 44 Mideast’s ___

Heights

47 Skewer

48 Sephora rival

49 Get into a spot,

perhaps

52 What’s the big

fuss?

53 ___ Valley (San Francisco neighborhood)