NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Metric weight unit

5 Water-skiing spot

9 Train travel

13 Dalai ___

(spiritual leader)

14 Hat’s edge

15 Actor Alan of

“M*A*S*H”

16 *Mattel offering with cards for making “hilarious comparisons”

19 Pescetarianism and veganism, for two

20 Title for Walter Scott or Isaac Newton

21 Bit of skin ink

22 Conclude

23 *Washington’s official state sport since 2022

27 Gazpacho or

pho

29 Negative replies

30 One nickname for Elizabeth

31 Autoinjection device

33 Seriously uncool

35 *Beanbagtossing sport

37 Kick off 39 Worried feeling

42 Mix

43 Sandwich that’s usually toasted, informally

44 Actor Hemsworth 46 *App craze of the early 2010s, familiarly 50 Swim-bike-run

race, for short 51 Pose questions 52 Tic-tac-toe win 53 Olympic great

Jesse 55 Dystopian novel/ film series … or what the answers to the starred clues are? 59 Rosemary or

mint

60 Medical

breakthrough 61 Matter before a

court 62 Canadian gas

brand

63 “Don’t worry your pretty little ___”

64 Chooses

DOWN

1 Forest clearings

2 U.S. soccer star

Megan

3 Filled with intense excitement

4 Grain used in

beermaking

5 Ozs. and ozs.

6 “Wherefore ___

thou Romeo?”

7 Stalls at malls

8 Send a message by computer

9 Genre for Da Brat or DaBaby

10 Full of hot air

11 “In a perfect world ...”

12 “In conclusion …”

17 Mind-reading ability, for short

18 ___-Columbian (up to 1492)

24 Unreactive

25 New Haven’s

state: Abbr.

26 Get serious

28 Jean-Luc ___, captain of the U.S.S. Enterprise

32 Olympic code

for Lisbon’s land

33 Dos and ___

34 Cry at a soccer

stadium 36 Streaming service with “The Bear”

37 Apt rhyme of “caches”

38 Fiddles (with) 40 Guide to navigating an internet resource

41 Sincere

42 Harshly denounce

43 Sturdy shoe, or an Irish accent

45 Opposites of hits

47 “Who asked

___?”

48 Spiral-shelled mollusk

49 Refuse to

share

54 Texas city that’s home to Baylor University

56 “True Detective”

airer

57 Period of history

58 “___ (Taylor’s Version),” #1 album of 2021