The New York Times Crossword

By Alex Tomlinson

ACROSS

1 Yard, nautically

5 Desire for a ski

jumper

13 _ _ _ blue dot (Earth, in a famous photograph)

14 “Knock it off!,” in

question form

15 Since

16 Classic airplane

snack

17 General term in a

series

18 Number in a count

19 Change, as a lock

20 One in a million,

so to speak

22 Journalism inits.

since 1851

23 One way to travel

the world

24 Lines from a

rapper, in slang

26 Milk option

29 Earth-based

pigment

30 Likely hyperbole

from a texter

32 Equipment in hockey, lacrosse and pickleball

34 What one might look at the night sky with

38 _ _ _ Lingus

39 Badge holder

40 Spanish geographical word that is an anagram of its English translation 41 “Woo-hoo!,” in

online shorthand

43 Pronoun functioning as an object (not a subject!)

45 “Give me five!”

46 Half full?

48 “Dig in, everyone”

50 Tropical vine

53 Work from, as a

desk

54 Purple ___,

Hawaiian crop

56 Bookie?

58 ___ bottles (popular gummy candy)

59 Bad press, say

60 Event at high noon

61 Occasion to recite the Pledge of Allegiance

62 Button usually held down by a pinkie

DOWN

1 Word after life or

C

2 One whose work might be a piece of cake?

3 Bit of attire seldom worn with a jacket

4 One you might beseech to get glasses

5 Term for an overly commercialized celebration

6 At any one time, roughly 10,000 trillion of them roam the earth

Edited by Will Shortz No. 1215

7 Bill concerned with science communication

8 Become barren

9 Synchronize with

10 Arctic native

11 Speck

12 Handmade goods

site

14 One on the Israelites’ journey to the Promised Land

16 Lose tautness

18 What stubbles

may become

21 Lurch

22 Warning letters

with a Reddit link

23 ___ Juniors, soccer team for which Diego Maradona once played

25 Canapé topper

27 “Don’t even think

of coming back!”

28 Nephalist

31 Part of a biblical

plague

33 Trick question,

e.g.

35 Housework?

36 There or

thereabouts

37 2022 Jordan Peele

film

42 Actress Malick

44 Hands (out)

47 West Coast

N.F.L.’ER

49 Damage the

reputation of

50 Tibetan title

51 Experimental

composer Charles

52 Supports

53 Set ___

55 Common place to

see Santa

57 Fade away

58 Public health org.