NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Actor Sean of
“Stranger Things” 6 “Right on!” 10 Driver's place 13 Ancient allegory paralleled in the plot of “The Matrix”
15 ___ Addams, first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize 16 Tales of woe 17 Prod
18 Some short
releases, for short 19 “Oh, gimme a
break!”
21 Spots for fighter
jets, in brief 22 Journalist who wrote the 1990s2000s comic strip “Capitol
Hell”
23 Ice cream dessert 25 One who's taken a
vow
26 Chafed, say 28 Gobble up 29 Locale near the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates, some believe 30 Dating inits. 31 Unmotivated, and
then some
32 Holy ___ 33 Sustenance 35 Cheyenne, e.g.:
Abbr.
36 “That's a ___” 38 Forces (upon) 39 Inebriate 40 “Young Man With
a Skull” painter 41 Throws
heavenward 42 Split
44 Really soak up the
sun
45 Cassius Dio said it went “from a kingdom of gold to one of rust and iron”
47 Mac
50 Winter Olympics
feat
51 Product of tissue engineering, such as artificial skin 53 Contemptible sort 54 “Come help me
with this” 55 Contemptible
sort
56 Doesn't check,
say
57 Big buttes
DOWN
1 Locale of the Chair of Saint Peter in Saint Peter's Basilica 2 Unappetizing bowlful
3 Things often seen in windows
4 “___ magic!” 5 Statement of inevitability
6 The Taj Mahal complex has 42 of them
7 Eldest of the Pleiades
8 When a vesper bell rings 9 Beverage brand portmanteau 10 High on
the job?
11 Pets that commonly have different-colored eyes, such as one blue and one amber
12 Existed
14 Like many minor-key compositions 15 Sharp increase 20 Hardly a test of
one's memory 21 “Mi ___” (Spanish words of endearment) 23 Portable lunch options from Japan
24 Dingy kitchen
items?
25 Is lachrymose 27 Brings together 28 Brings down 32 Place of drudgery 34 Riddled 37 Marathon
runner's wear 38 Like bootleg
pants 43 Eponymous founder of a San Diego research institute
44 Really stinks 45 Hindi for “king” 46 Amanda Gorman,
e.g.
47 Diagonal kind of
cut
48 It has coronoid and styloid processes 49 Spots for
shams
52 When italicized, word before something exemplary