CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Pinnacle

5 Zither kin

9 Is profitable

13 Like a clown

car’s passengers

15 __ palak: dish of potatoes and spinach

16 Brilliant artist beset by personal demons, say

18 Condition that may be treated with CBT

19 Hand (out)

20 Coding shortcut

21 Activities Rudolph was kept from joining

24 Dudes

25 2020 and 2022 WNBA MVP Wilson

26 Sagan who hosted the original “Cosmos”

28 Little red Corvette or little deuce coupe

30 “The French Dispatch” director Anderson

33 Southern part of the Mariana Trench

37 Certain sib

38 Engrave

39 With

competence

40 “Don’t __ me

started”

41 20s dispensers

43 Leafy side

49 Unsettling, in a

way

50 Word on Irish

coins

51 Issa of “The

Lovebirds”

52 Not conforming to traditional male/female norms, and a hint to this puzzle’s circles 55 Burn balm

56 Prison drama that was Jonathan Demme’s directorial debut

57 Multitude in a pointillist painting

58 Copied

59 Norway’s most

populous city

DOWN

1 Person in a cast

2 Jim who sang “I

Got a Name”

3 Time to celebrate with one’s krewe mates

4 First responder:

Abbr.

5 First responders,

e.g.

6 “Easy on Me”

singer 7 Rodeo

contestant

8 GIF alternative

9 Land on an

isthmus

10 Painter Neel

known for nudes

11 “What’s mine is

__”

12 Meh

14 In need of a doggy bath, maybe

17 Key with four

sharps

22 No longer valid

23 Garden entrance

26 Hypo units

27 Fish at a sushi

bar

28 Anti-apartheid

org.

29 “Gross”

30 Episodes on

YouTube, say

31 Fish at a sushi

bar

32 Hidden asset? 34 Actress-turnedartist Sobieski

35 “__ Jones Sings Lady Day”: 2001 album

36 Title for Judi

Dench

40 Moves

smoothly

41 “Deal!”

42 Traction aid

43 Gnarls Barkley singersongwriter Green

44 “... unless you’d rather do something else”

45 Summary at the start of a new season, e.g.

46 Mournful tune

47 __ blockade

48 Take care of

49 Quaint oath

53 TV pioneer

54 However briefly?