NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Opposite of very 5 Part of Kamala

Harris’s ancestry 10 Lead-in to -nomic 14 “Not finished yet …” 16 Some tandoori fare 17 Paper-pusher 18 Stopping point? 19 Outburst of complete exhaustion

20 Dice, in slang 21 “Glorify ___ Name”

(church chorus) 22 Roman foeman 23 Witticism

24 New York football

team, to fans 26 Country singer/

songwriter Tillis 27 Palindromic

woman’s name 28 One going through cyclic ups and downs?

31 Spot at a movie

theater

32 Doctor’s approach 33 Suffix with form 34 Curve together loosely, as one’s hands

35 Plates 36 Not-so-hard pill to

swallow

38 Zip

39 “Pretty worm of Nilus,” in Shakespeare 42 Playwright Fugard 43 Laugh it off, say 46 Fall sound 47 Polonium was named for her homeland, Poland, in 1898

48 “Watch your ___!” (response to 52-Across) 49 Option for expressing grievances 50 Picks, in football:

Abbr.

51 Calves come from

them

52 See 48-Across

DOWN

1 Scope

2 Something you shouldn’t do in an art museum

3 Solar ___

4 Celebrity chef Paula 5 Grew a spine 6 Client’s company contact, informally 7 Dummkopf

8 “___ absolute mess” 9 Word that’s also a

diminutive suffix 10 Stop at

11 Big earner at a

business

12 Message that basically tells you to get a life? 13 Amazon deterrent 15 Work with a needle,

informally 20 Terrible on opening

weekend, say 23 Some slapstick

props 24 Impersonate on

Halloween

25 It contains many

numbers

26 Gilbert and Sullivan’s “glorious thing to be” 28 Olympic pursuit 29 “___ inside” (convenience store sign)

30 Parts of Polynésie

française

31 Form of

crowdfunding 32 Lamborghini

alternative 37 Things that can be

cracked

38 One knife in a knife

collection

39 Source of the brachiocephalic trunk

40 Heaven, with “the” 41 Gets a hard look

(at)

43 Athletic trainer’s

supply

44 A as in Atlantic

City?

45 Projects

47 Kind of rule