The Riverside Press-Enterprise
The New York Times Crossword
By Sarah Sinclair and Rafael Musa
ACROSS
1 Record label for Pink, SZA and H.E.R.
4 The “handsaw” in Hamlet’s “I know a hawk from a handsaw”
9 Song words preceding “his kiss”
14 They’re often caving, but not spelunking
16 Everybody’s
opposite
17 “That’s genius!”
18 Put off
19 Show of Force?
20 Attacked in a
snowball fight
21 A popular nightclub might have one
22 Take risks
23 Rutabaga, for one
26 “It’s all over for
us!”
29 Canine protector
31 ___ system
32 Stage of
metamorphosis
33 Syst. in which “Deaf Power” can be indicated by an open palm over one ear and the other hand forming a closed fist in the air
34 Couches
37 Hound
38 Toni Morrison
title
40 Andre Young
a.k.a. Dr. ___
41 Architectural
finish
43 Foe-run land?
46 Unnaturally white
47 Work through
seven stages, say
48 Like holographic
Pokémon cards
50 Takes it easy
51 Passage that might be a mess after a rainstorm
55 Kidney-related
56 Exonerating
words
57 Stand and
deliver?
58 “The Bachelor”
outing
59 Not natural, in a
way
60 Havens
61 Rubik’s Cube,
once
DOWN
1 World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy, for short
2 Terse
3 Offshore
4 Starts off-key?
5 _ _ _-les-bains, spa town on Lake Geneva
6 Amended, as a
map
7 Some Minecraft
blocks
8 Org. that advises on ransomware risk mitigation
Edited by Will Shortz No. 0126
9 Taking too much
credit, say
10 Simple skating
jump
11 Release of a new product to a limited audience
12 “This relationship has been a bit overwhelming”
13 Many a Comiccon attendee
15 ___ Renaissance
20 Vexes
22 Skara ___, Scottish site of Europe’s most complete Neolithic village
23 Ride
24 Pandemic health
worker, say
25 Ones whose careers have turning points?
27 “The door’s
open!”
28 Attach
30 Some Best Buy
offerings
35 “Fair point”
36 High-value ones are called “unicorns”
39 “Has the meeting
already begun?”
42 Account recovery
need
44 Gave a hoot
45 Bugles
alternative
49 Lock horns
50 Cut down to size,
maybe
51 Bilingual girl of
TV and film
52 “Frozen” figure
53 Princess in “A
Bug’s Life”
54 Not natural, in a
way
56 Many a humanitarian effort, in brief