The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Sleeper’s support

8 Quick refresher

14 “The Spoonful of Milk”

painter, 1912

15 Whom The New York Times co-named athlete of the year, with Babe Ruth, in 1920

16 Peppery orange-red

condiment

17 What a single is worth

18 Toy inspector?

20 Hillary Clinton or Kamala

Harris, once: Abbr.

21 Missed-the-turn

maneuver

22 Not doing anything

26 What comes before a

final

29 Some bands’ practice

sessions

31 Place to get a platza

treatment

32 Gymnast Raisman

33 Simplest choice

34 State of ___

35 Condone an action

tacitly

38 Secretly pass gas?

39 M.L.B. great with a famous “unbreakable” streak, familiarly

40 Ottoman authority

41 ___ fusion

42 Anti-discrimination govt.

agency

43 Nautical ropes

44 Do some branding? 45 Mexican free-tailed

___ (world’s fastest horizontal flier)

46 Place to go, for short

48 “Damn right!”

54 One who is mean as the

Dickens?

57 “Ohhh …”

58 “September 1, 1939”

poet

59 “Never heard that

before”

60 45-Across, for one

61 Bridesmaids’ expenses

DOWN

1 Great deal

2 “This can’t be happening”

3 Biter

4 Tennis great nicknamed “The Punisher”

5 Tool that you turn on

6 His “Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy” was the first album to debut at #1 on Billboard

7 What the “angler” on a deep-sea anglerfish can do

8 It may go on sale on November 1

9 Uncommon blood type, for short

10 “Admittedly …”

11 Group that had the first hardcore rap album to reach #1 on Billboard

12 Power couple? 13 Intro to cognition

15 Pouts

19 UPS fleet

23 Place for a working

model

24 Get involved

25 They’re chosen for their

high-grade potential

26 Red or green condiments

27 Fictional girl who says “I go to all the weddings in the White and Gold room and I usually stay for the reception”

28 What LASIK treats

30 Metric unit equal to 100

square meters

31 Take off, as a layer

33 Lots and lots

34 Popular TNT drama that

starred Kyra Sedgwick

36 World capital whose name means “elephant trunk” in Arabic

37 As well

42 Polished off

43 Objects thrown out hotel windows, in a rock ’n’ roll cliché

45 Zero, in scoring slang

47 “___ there yet?”

49 Morning host Kotb

50 Discover

51 Pizza chain, informally

52 1990 World Cup final city

53 Milk sources for pecorino

Romano

54 Personal ad abbr.

55 Cuppa from China

56 Hit head-on