The New York Times Crossword

Answers below ACROSS

1 Capital of Chad 9 Charge

15 Face-to-face challenge 16 Yes-man

17 Folklore character whose stockings are tied with eyelashes 18 Course coup

19 Some indie releases 20 ___ Ex (video game

franchise)

22 Devotee

23 ’70s sitcom title role 26 Bar assembly

28 Ruby and sapphire 29 Perp’s mark, in cop

slang

31 110%, perhaps 32 Exercises one’s discretion

33 Language introduced

in 1995

34 “I’ll never tell”

37 ___ jazz

38 Forest swingers 39 Lane on the eastern boundary of Covent Garden

40 Unlikely race favorite 41 Baseboard fastener 42 Kicks in

43 Tony soprano?

46 Paid tribute to 47 Riding on

48 Hedging word 51 Stir up

53 Hands

56 Brie ___, star of 2019’s

“Captain Marvel” 57 Airy treat

58 Indicate agreement 59 Stand with dogs, say

DOWN

1 Mark down

2 Stop discussing 3 Undirected sessions 4 Music genre prefix 5 “Big whoop” 6 Couldn’t contain 7 Going by

8 Leopards and anacondas, e.g.

9 HQ with runways 10 Long faces?

11 Cabinet piece

12 Fail to appreciate 13 Key explorers 14 Viewed

21 Browns, perhaps 23 Tending to change 24 Croak

25 Sad end?

26 They’re planted by

plants

27 Denizens of New York City sewers, per an urban legend 30 Suffragist Elizabeth

___ Stanton

31 Tom Wolfe’s “___ in

Full” 32 State bordering the

Pacific

33 Banned outdoor game 35 Shepard who wrote

“Pretty Little Liars” 36 Novelist O’Brien 41 Tries for, in a way 42 Source of fine wool 44 Adapt, say

45 “___ You” (1975 Minnie Riperton hit) 46 Presidential dog of the

1940s

48 Ancient Dead Sea

kingdom

49 Pop star with top 40 hits in the 1950s, ’60s, ’70s and ’80s

50 Scene of W.W. I fighting

52 Fighter in the fictional

Battle of Isengard 54 Shamus

55 ___ factor