The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Spreads concern?

5 God who rides the eight-legged horse Sleipnir

9 Tube feature,

with “the”

12 Illegal product

that’s still made?

14 Write some

letters

16 “Seems like a bad

idea …”

17 Baked, in Italian

18 Word with bubble

or high

19 Contacts data:

Abbr.

20 Brand of ranch

dressing?

22 Obsolescent kind

of drive

24 Finish with

25 Far from home,

say

28 Author who wrote “Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance”

30 Thin

31 May to November, in Central America

34 Checkout choices

35 Need to pay

36 QB rushers,

collectively

37 Does a better job than at making points

39 Gives up

40 Clouds 41 Light touch

42 Moves a little

43 _ _ _ Day of Visibility (March 31 observance)

45 Piece of the pie

47 Put on

48 ___ Coleman, principal on “Abbott Elementary”

51 Protagonist in a long-running Phyllis Reynolds Naylor book series

52 Person who might sweep a board game off a table

55 About 20 million

people in India

56 Close associates

to be wary of

57 Flattering lines

58 Growth that may be treated with salicylic acid

59 Be wide open

DOWN

1 Cut

2 One pill, perhaps

3 World capital whose Museum of Islamic Art was designed by I.M. Pei

4 ___ Balls

5 “Goodness …”

6 Claim in a

squabble

7 Lodge

8 NBA team originally based in New Jersey

Edited by Will Shortz No. 0929

9 Seeks shelter

10 ___ B. Parker, Democratic candidate for president in 1904

11 Blueprint

13 Feeling of dread before the start of the workweek, in slang

14 Source of a

burning odor?

15 Blunt salespeople

21 Model Holliday

22 Go into one’s “phone voice,” say

23 Who said “Between two evils, I always pick the one I never tried before”

25 “_ _ _ and Janis”

(comic strip)

26 Suitor

27 Form of protest

for tenants

29 Great Basin

people

31 Creepy-crawly

32 Singles

33 “Queer Eye” costar Jonathan Van ___

38 Approximately

41 Having rhythm

42 Cube, e.g.

44 Like AB- vis-à-vis

other blood types

45 El _ _ _

46 Office warning

letters

48 Birthplace of the world’s major religions

49 Second-incommand, informally

50 Bum

53 Italian time unit

54 [!!!]