The New York Times Crossword

By Robyn Weintraub

ACROSS 1

Has balance issues

5 Actress Rae who played President Barbie in “Barbie”

9 Soapstone mineral

13 Contempt

14 “Seriously? I guess I’m the only remaining holdout then”

16 Sierra follower

17 Tacky item in a kindergarten classroom

18 What one might hope for in a tight spot

20 Pie

accompaniment?

21 Approach

22 Signal for a change in direction?

23 Tour group, in

brief

25 Descendents of Abraham and Ishmael

27 Part of Cruella de

Vil’s get-up

32 _ _ _ Planet (travel

guidebook series)

34 Theme of Adele’s “Someone Like You”

35 Many a Coral Sea

island

36 Something in a

gondola’s forcola

37 Mists

38 “For real!”

40 Remove surgically 41 Word on a common bumper sticker

42 Sounds of relief

43 Calculation that might include calculus, for short

44 Mo. when Paul

Revere rode

45 Role in “Evita”

48 Like the Gwyndodeg and Powyseg dialects

52 Term largely replaced by “Zoom”

55 “No problem at

all”

57 View from the Trans-siberian Railway

58 Tex-mex

condiment

59 Like some parsley

and kale

60 Air quality index

factor

61 Casualty of a 1917

revolution

62 Fixes a border, in a

way

DOWN

1 Florida’s _ _ _

National Forest

2 Just eked it out

3 Hence

4 Cold war

aggressions?

5 Pricey bars

6 Flying _ _ _

7 Help out on the

campaign trail

8 Consent from a

mate

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9 Attire for many a

Degas subject

10 “Keep ___!”

11 Geometric points

12 Cuba libre

ingredient

13 Mélange

15 Trashy television

character?

19 Raspberry relative

24 Theater cat in

“Cats”

26 Enjoy a spa day,

say

28 Commit a fashion

faux pas

29 Acts exceedingly

friendly

30 French preposition

31 LSAT section?

32 Like secular

concerns

33 Miranda who played ...owyn in “The Lord of the Rings”

34 It’s not long.

36 Foil to Mark Antony in “Julius Caesar”

39 Member of the

family Viperidae

40 Ready, in a way

42 Lower

46 Campus buildings

47 Online retailer headquartered in Brooklyn

48 Match _ _ _

49 Gouda alternative

50 Bananas

51 Lock lips, to a

Liverpudlian

53 People who worshiped the fertility goddess Pachamama

54 “Red, White & ___” (2005 heavy metal album)

56 Dojo surface