The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Has balance issues
5 Actress Rae who played President Barbie in “Barbie”
9 Soapstone mineral
13 Contempt
14 “Seriously? I guess I’m the only remaining holdout then”
16 Sierra follower
17 Tacky item in a kindergarten classroom
18 What one might hope for in a tight spot
20 Pie accompaniment?
21 Approach
22 Signal for a change in direction?
23 Tour group, in brief
25 Descendents of Abraham and Ishmael
27 Part of Cruella de Vil’s get-up
32 _ _ _ Planet (travel guidebook series)
34 Theme of Adele’s “Someone Like You”
35 Many a Coral Sea island
36 Something in a gondola’s forcola
37 Mists
38 “For real!”
40 Remove surgically
41 Word on a common bumper sticker
42 Sounds of relief
43 Calculation that might include calculus, for short
44 Mo. when Paul Revere rode
45 Role in “Evita”
48 Like the Gwyndodeg and Powyseg dialects 52 Term largely replaced by “Zoom”
55 “No problem at all”
57 View from the Trans-siberian Railway
58 Tex-mex condiment
59 Like some parsley and kale
60 Air quality index factor
61 Casualty of a 1917 revolution
62 Fixes a border, in a way
DOWN
1 Florida’s _ _ _ National Forest
2 Just eked it out 3 Hence
4 Cold war aggressions?
5 Pricey bars 6 Flying _ _ _
7 Help out on the campaign trail
8 Consent from a mate
9 Attire for many a Degas subject
10 “Keep ___!”
11 Geometric points
12 Cuba libre ingredient
13 Mélange
15 Trashy television character?
19 Raspberry relative
24 Theater cat in “Cats”
26 Enjoy a spa day, say
28 Commit a fashion faux pas
29 Acts exceedingly friendly
30 French preposition
31 LSAT section?
32 Like secular concerns
33 Miranda who played ...owyn in “The Lord of the Rings”
34 It’s not long.
36 Foil to Mark Antony in “Julius Caesar”
39 Member of the family Viperidae
40 Ready, in a way
42 Lower
46 Campus buildings
47 Online retailer headquartered in Brooklyn
48 Match _ _ _
49 Gouda alternative
50 Bananas
51 Lock lips, to a Liverpudlian
53 People who worshiped the fertility goddess Pachamama
54 “Red, White & ___” (2005 heavy metal album)
56 Dojo surface