The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Fast food order 6 Balderdash 14 Making of an impression?
15 1962 #1 hit for the Crystals featuring a biker on the record sleeve
17 Rock genre
18 Bit of census data 19 Slips
20 ___ hulu manu (feathery adornment)
21 Actor James of “The Blacklist” 22 People with a language of the same name 23 Steamed source of stimulation
25 Famille member 26 Voting rights activist who founded Fair Fight Action
30 Russian dumplings 31 Facility
32 Some undergrad degs.
35 Where an athlete might dunk
37 Miser
39 Org. tracking metadata 40 A sculpture of a three-legged one is considered lucky in feng shui 42 ___ James, the so-called “King of the Slide Guitar”
43 “You have to look at the bigger picture”
45 Group whose logo is a mirror ambigram
48 N.B.A. great
Baylor
49 Goddess: Lat. 50 Cavort
53 Central square, perhaps
54 Though commonly known as vegetables, botanically they are fruit
55 Wicca symbol 57 Two-time Grammy winner Bryson 58 Condiment made with peanuts 59 Conversation starter
60 Dodge S.U.V.s
61 Pal of Kent and Lane
DOWN
1 Figure skating move based on the arabesque in ballet 2 Theatrically exaggerated behavior 3 Population calculation scope 4 Cuup products 5 Olive ___
6 Comic relief role in “Tarzan” 7 1970 music documentary that won an Oscar for Best Original Score
8 Hard wood
9 Goes for the gold? 10 What comes before the fall? 11 Features of many season premieres 12 Stomach
13 “Great” man 16 Zither relative 20 Flatter effusively 23 Italian for “tied together”
24 Modern and Classical periods 27 Parent of a cygnet 28 Antithesis of a hedonist
29 Noted spelling expert
32 Focus of literary agents
33 Obliging
34 “Later!”
36 Not fancy in the least
38 Ashram sounds 41 Fast-food chain with the slogan “UnFreshing Believable” 43 Three-beat gait 44 Annual event with Ski Slopestyle and Skateboard Vert 45 Starters, for short 46 It’s found at the bottom of the food pyramid
47 Language family of Swahili or Zulu 51 ___ Milà, landmark building in Barcelona
52 2011 Pulitzer winner Jennifer 54 Spa offering
56 Word after throw or scatter 57 Aromatic noodle soup