The New York Times Crossword

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?

35 QB stats

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

37 Like Turkish coffee

39 Wear and tear

40 Quick pick-me-up?

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 ___, co-star

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