N.Y. 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, s ay
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 port manteau 10 High on the job?
11 Pets that commonly have differentcolored 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