The New York Times

ACROSS

1 Major Indian

tourist site

5 Comes down hard

10 “This isn’t good

at all!”

13 Word with round

or head

14 Tippy-tops

15 Sore spot

16 Part of La-La

Land

18 “It’s ___ real”

19 Charles

Schwab offering

20 Transition effect famously used in “Star Wars” films

21 Their sales rose in 2021 and 2022, after two decades of decline

22 Medicinal amt.

23 Gnats and curs,

e.g.

25 Title of respect

26 Off! ingredient

28 Simu ___, star of “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings”

29 End-of-week

greeting

32 Tourist-spots,

maybe?

33 On the struggle bus, it might be said

34 Result of being fired?

QB stats

36 Comic actor who co-created “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt”

37 Like Turkish

coffee

39 Wear and tear

40 Quick pick-meup?

43 Nitwit

44 Bordelaise, for

one

47 Box with a view

48 Home country,

poetically

49 Top-notch

50 Top-notch

51 Electrically

flexible

52 Web portal released the same day as Windows 95

53 Elizabeth of

“WandaVision”

54 Fancy-y-y

DOWN

1 Top story

2 Drudgery

3 Pickled

watermelon parts

4 Place for a prayer

5 Brother from another mother, maybe

6 Make a scene,

aptly

7 Comment

following a cue

8 Blue

9 ID on a filing

10 Part of a cold

shower, maybe

11 Alternative to bread crumbs in some gluten-free recipes

12 Earring Magic ___ (1990s doll that developed a cult following)

15 Some

17 Touchdown

follower, often

20 Quarter Pounder

qualifier

23 Playoff format

24 Aggregate

25 Fitted with

footwear

26 Georgia team, to

fans

27 Column on an airport flight board, informally

29 First winner of the Canadian Comedy Awards’

Person of the Year (2008)

30 Disposition

31 Sea line?

32 Some fellows,

informally

33 “Illmatic” rapper

38 Words of

encouragement

39 Join forces

40 Kaley ___, costar of “The Big Bang Theory”

41 They’re far from

basic

42 Natural gas

emission?

44 Feature of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial

45 “Really?”

46 Memo letters

47 Flight

48 It has a new

meaning