The New York Times Crossword
Answers below
ACROSS
1 Sky-high
10 “In-tents” getaways
15 Solo act?
16 Mononymous singer with numerically titled albums
17 Footwear with distinctive yellow stitching
18 New Delhi’s ___ Temple
19 Jumps over, say
20 Gave 9-Down
22 “Just ___ heads-up ...”
23 2019 World Series champs, familiarly
24 Southwest city that gets about 350 days of sunshine a year
26 Monk’s title
27 Isle of ___ (historic region of England)
28 Noted cairn terrier of film
29 ___ society
31 Odysseus’ faithful dog in the “Odyssey”
32 Specks
33 Dangerous thing to be inside
38 Thrifty competitor 39 Hews
40 Excites
42 The Black Knights of the N.C.A.A.
43 Its famous chime consists of the three notes G-E-C
46 Lead role of a 1979 Broadway hit
47 N-___ (mathematical sets)
49 Plunder
50 Japanese honorific
51 Papal issue
52 Medieval Latin for “great”
53 Relished
56 Seattle slew?
58 Word with aid or pad
59 Places to see lots of lutzes
60 Beats in a photo finish, say
61 1979 hit whose title is stuttered
DOWN
1 Line from one who’s fully fed ... or fully fed up
2 Garden-variety
3 Bad blood
4 Things to keep in check?
5 Some Olympus offerings, in brief
6 One in a highchair
7 Lose eligibility for, as Little League
8 Rationale for “throwing good money after bad”
9 Nods
10 Bit of energy, for short
11 Tumult
12 Some Instagram statistics, fittingly?
13 Party add-ons
14 Puppet show locale, for short
21 “What an idiot I am!”
24 Lomé locale
25 Without feeling
28 Where one may or may not make the cut
30 TV tavern whose owner bribes Mayor Quimby to pass a health inspection
31 Charity
33 One way to make cookie dough?
34 Higher up
35 Flop
36 Grave words
37 Shade providers at the National Mall
41 Magazine, e.g., for short
43 Where Midori Ito lit the Olympic cauldron
44 John or Paul
45 Top-tier
48 Holiday celebrated by reading the Megillah
49 Actor Bill of “Barry”
52 Gore Vidal’s “___ Breckinridge”
54 Nation whose currency is the dirham: Abbr.
55 Texting counterpart of “ty”
57 “Gonna have to pass”