The New York Times Crossword
Answers below
ACROSS
1 Exercises with squat thrusts and jumps
8 Literally, “great soul” 15 Auto parts giant
16 Momentous
17 Certain sidekicks
18 Writing letters, it’s said
19 Short spiel
21 Part of a fancy table setting
22 Defer for now
23 Tee follower
24 Its highest score is 1520
25 The Baltics, once: Abbr.
26 “There you go!”
28 Light touch
29 Unnatural, in a way
30 Phone hotline?
31 Unpredictable 36 Start of some
decision-making
37 “I Am ___,” onetime spinoff of “Keeping Up With the Kardashians”
38 Rugby equivalent of a touchdown
39 ___ Neuwirth
(jeweler)
41 Related
42 Indicators of enlightenment
43 Study
44 Apt bingo call to lose
on, by the sound of it?
45 Low notes
46 Program that a 2011 global commission officially declared a failure,
40 years after its launch
50 Synthetic material also called frozen smoke
51 Disneyland attraction with a racetrack
54 A comedy of errors?
55 Actor in the “Fast & Furious” franchise, familiarly
56 Trickery
57 Unpredictable
DOWN
1 Bit of Christmas morning detritus
2 Sch. in the Atlantic
10 Conference
3 What sunlight and wind provide
4 Oinkling?
5 “Patchwork elephant” of children’s literature
6 K2 fig.
7 They’ll help you pass
on impulses
8 Noggins
9 Left at sea
10 Drip locale: Abbr.
11 It’s a start
12 “Ahhhh!”
13 Give waves to with a curling iron, once
14 ___ Gibson, first African American to win a Grand Slam title
20 Holiday dish with lots of stuffing?
21 “I saw ___, he saw me” (classic tongue twister line)
24 E-signature holder, maybe
25 Cable network with a rhyming name
26 Couleur du brocoli
27 Lead-in to Clean
29 Worker’s cry of triumph
30 Go around
32 Director Wiseman
33 Part of a contingency plan
34 Special times
35 GPS component: Abbr.
39 Common attachments to lanyards
40 Get better again
41 Key rings?
42 Kind of rabbit
44 2020 N.F.L. retiree who leads all QBS in career pass completions (7,142)
45 ___ space
47 Tired
48 Posthumous Pulitzer winner of 1958 49 Germany’s largest urban area
52 Opposite of là
53 Org. with a pedigree registry