NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Modern-day scrapbooks, of a sort

16 Common cybersecurity measure 17 Successfully strike a delicate balance

18 Home of the Kingdom of Dahomey, today

19 Balanced

20 Like a proposal in Congress that has zero chance of passing, in brief 21 ___ Morgenstern, author of “The Night Circus” 22 Heavyweight wrestlers

24 Sign …or signature

25 Org. that employs Hank on “Breaking Bad”

26 Five-time Grammywinning jazz pianist Mccoy ___

27 Something large often stored upside down 28 Does

29 See eye to eye 30 Auto parts brand owned by GM

33 Party leader? 34 Special coffee shop offerings 35 Sandwich made with a telera roll 36 Shiny button material

37 Europe, Asia and America

38 Some vaccine administrators, in brief

41 The low, low price of

42 Refuses to keep going

43 Handy trick 44 Molecule that can interfere in gene expression 45 Member of an elite force 46 Watercolor, clay and others 47 Academic who works with many different schools, maybe 51 Sierra Nevada offering 52 Mediocre at best

DOWN

1 Place to let sleeping dogs lie

2 Arrival announcement 3 Literary domain of Peter the Magnificent and Susan the Gentle 4 Marketing link 5 ___ vital (life force, from the French) 6 Fire-engine ___ 7 Hearing monitor, for short

8 Rhyming arrangements, e.g.

9 Comic Noah who wrote the autobiographical “Born a Crime” 10 Actress Amanda

11 Many a tournament

12 ___ and ran 13 “Good ___!”

14 Like a dirge 15 Athletic items never purchased individually 22 Aligns 23 Command after an accidental deletion

24 Kind of ray

26 Piña colada topper

27 Goes for

28 One of two Tudor kings 29 Tangle in an office

30 Not what you’d expect

31 Madiba, for Nelson Mandela

32 States

33 Loud bird sound 35 Capital on the Gulf of Finland 37 Words sung on the same notes as “twinkle,” in a different nursery rhyme

38 Branching out from the center 39 Longtime police procedural that ended in 2023, informally 40 Expert with figures?

42 Wood for smoking andouille sausage 43 Philosopher who was a major influence on Marx

45 Hissy

46 One whose distance may be measured by the yard? 48 Division of the Treasury Dept. 49 Black ___

50 West Coast news inits.