NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Stores with fixed costs?

12 What might be sought before a major decision 14 1998 rap hit by Big Pun (feat. Joe) 16 Shortcut, of a sort 17 Like many attics 18 N.C.A.A. women’s basketball champs of 2023, for short 19 Settled

20 Modern way to pay 21 ___ Domino

22 Son of, in Hebrew 23 Ships

24 Some beach fliers 25 Chick with multiple Grammys

26 World Trade ___ (fixture of Hong Kong or Toronto) 27 Trading off? 30 Least robustlooking

31 “Get it?”

32 Cancels

33 Word often accompanied by an arrow

34 Haka dance performers 35 Home, spun?

38 A bunch 39 Astronaut Cooper, informally 40 Cocktail fruta 41 Corp. debut

42 Kind of badge 43 Coastal formations 44 Reprimand to one who spoke too soon 47 Nonessential, as spending

48 “I HAVE to have this — whatever it costs”

DOWN

1 Curb, as spending 2 Sparkle

3 Sample, say

4 ___ Radcliffe, pioneer in Gothic fiction

5 1781 Mozart opera seria

6 Jeffersonian design at the heart of the University of Virginia

7 Some contractions 8 Aware of, informally

9 Sole

10 ___ mater

11 Vegan coffee order 12 Lacking creativity 13 Ones who build their homes bit by bit

14 One crossing the line? 15 Autumn hue 20 Cusp

21 Many Laplanders 23 More irritated 24 Ibram X. ___, author of “How to Be an Antiracist” 25 Concerns for a

linguist

26 City with the oldest metro system in Africa

27 Blinker

28 Tech support? 29 “Shut your pie

hole!”

30 Feature of a

Craftsman home 32 Magazine that originated the words “payola” and “striptease” 34 Post-___

35 Bleak

36 “Man has no greater ___ than himself”: Petrarch 37 Foundation 39 Mystery, e.g. 40 Ones going through

a stage 42 Bandmate of Keith

and Brian 43 Country duo Brooks

& ___

45 Inspection org. 46 Joey of children’s

literature