The New York Times Crossword
Answers below
ACROSS
1 Sign of spring
7 Performs repetitive tasks to gain experience points, in gaming slang
12 Question in a lot of cars?
14 Hourglass contents, poetically
15 Lays into, with “out”
16 Inventor played by David
Bowie in “The Prestige”
17 Litter whimper
18 Pot grower?
19 Like certain corrections
20 Doesn’t stick out, say
21 Things once kept in towers
22 Twitter-sphere?
24 Thereabout
26 Red or green lights, maybe
28 Kind of network
30 Focus of the law of the land?
32 Emmy winner Patricia of
“Thirty-something”
34 “Good enough”
36 What can’t be done alone,
famously
38 Ballyhoo
39 Some social media postings
42 Rooster raised for eating
43 Impertinent sort
44 Small sample
45 Many a Hollywood production
assistant
46 Disney’s “___ Dragon”
47 Slide behind a speaker, maybe
50 Buckwheat and others
51 Went head over heels?
52 Compound that becomes a man’s name when its last letter is removed
DOWN
1 Word with song or party
2 Name on a truck
3 Jacobean ___
4 Possible source of monthly
income
5 Supplements
6 Go out too late, perhaps
7 Org. running global
championships since 1930
8 Felicitous
9 Sam of Hollywood
10 Mascot whose head is a
baseball
11 Isn’t objective with
12 “How’ve you been?”
13 One for the money
14 The most well-known one is
named for a Greek hero
15 Blue-ish
19 Hideout for Blackbeard
20 Savage
22 Where one might drift off on
a boat
23 Exasperated, say
25 Relationship strains?
27 The land down under?
29 Motivated, with “under”
31 Went round and round, in a way
33 Watches amazedly
35 Line after a drop
37 Opposite of “Stat!”
39 Designs
40 In which Nunavut means “our
land”
41 Given on a platter
43 Role in 2020’s “The Trial of
the Chicago 7”
45 Metal that can be drawn into
a wire an atom wide
46 Work out
48 Acclaimed manga artist Junji
___
49 21st-century health inits.