The 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 *Beanbag-tossing 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