The New Yor kTi mes Crossword

ACROSS

1 Leading lady? 12 Depiction on the Australian coat of arms 15 Popular orders at

beachside bars 16 U-Haul option 17 Comment before

indulging

18 Some theft targets 19 Protrusions near a

trunk, maybe

20 Sticks

21 Whizzed (by)

22 Word sometimes

substituted for “your” 23 Killing a mockingbird is one, per Atticus Finch

24 Prepare for court, in a

way

26 Tamagotchi, once 27 Modern lead-in to

speak

28 Park ranger’s handout 29 Stayed out of sight 31 Bouquet 32 Palindrome with an apostrophe in the middle

34 Contents of some

wells

35 Sleeveless top, informally

36 Approached quickly 37 Complete set in musical comedy?

39 Psych up

41 Bill that’s half a 52

Across, informally 42 ___ Short, pioneer in

West Coast hip-hop 45 Reroute

46 The sun or the moon 47 Ganja

48 Whizzed (by)

49 “The Virtue of Selfishness” essayist, 1964 51 Pal of Seinfeld and

Costanza

52 See 41-Across

53 Way of Life?

55 Stir

56 Helen of Troy, e.g. 57 Lip

58 Some reference works

in newsrooms

DOWN

1 Not very much 2 Missing portion of a

manuscript

3 Gradually stopped,

with “out”

4 Hair pieces

5 Qts. and pts.

6 Way out

7 Onetime Food Network show featuring Creole and Cajun cuisine

8 Kind of jar

9 “Go placidly ___ the noise and the haste &” (start of Max Ehrmann’s “Desiderata”) 10 Louise of TV’s “Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman”

11 Ballpark fig. 12 It’s a bad sign

13 Raked in the dough 14 Messy, as a floor 21 Tussle

23 ___ protein

25 Parent company of Gerber and Lean Cuisine

27 Dorothy of old “Road”

films

28 13, for many 29 Shaped, as wood 30 Singer/songwriter of

1980’s “Kiss Kiss Kiss” 32 Popular salon option,

informally

33 Toxin that might contain formic acid 36 Symbol associated

with Communism 38 Go out

40 Houston or Washington vis-à-vis Manhattan

42 Tightened (up) 43 Threatening words 44 Hyperfocus

46 Buck ___, Major League Baseball’s first Black coach

47 Gardner of “S.N.L.” 50 General assembly? 51 R&B singer Erykah 53 Burnable items 54 Burnable item