The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Two things in Broadway’s “Dear Evan Hansen”
5 Goes off
10 Puts on
14 Wonderful review
15 ___ Stadium, longtime home of college football’s Hula Bowl
16 Spree
17 Scratch-off success
19 Princess ___, main role in Pixar’s “A Bug’s Life”
20 “Didn’t expect that to happen!”
21 Treats often topped with caviar
22 The point of writing?
23 Modern-day put-down popularized by a 2019 TikTok video
25 Flavor similar to fennel
26 Vintage eighttrack purchases, maybe
27 Stress specialist?
28 “Britain’s first family of harmony,” per Brian Wilson
29 With 51-Across, package recipient’s cry
30 Terrible review
31 Kind of exam with an “Auditing and Attestation” section
34 “Hey man, listen up …”
35 Speak loudly and harshly
36 What’s at home on the range?
39 Pieces together?
40 Doesn’t delete
41 Sires
42 Heavens
43 Kids might make a stand for this
45 Top-___
46 Something promoted on the front of a magazine
48 Challenge for a free soloist
49 Unit of firewood
50 Main ingredient in the Japanese dish tekkadon
51 See 29-Across
52 Visibly shows embarrassment
53 Opposite of ginormous
DOWN
1 Actress Nicole ___ Parker
2 “Let’s stop. Is this really necessary?”
3 “Dallas” or “Atlanta”
4 Info for a group of performers
5 Industrial dept.
6 Resort locale east of Snowbird
7 Lead-in to a grave pronouncement
8 “Not so fast!”
9 Eastern honorific
10 Buffaloed
11 Complete a sentence, say
12 Not-so-common extension
13 One way to the top
18 What may come as a relief?
21 Basic framework
22 Champagne ___, one of Drake’s nicknames
24 Funeral fixtures
26 Firsts in flight
28 Wade in the
Baseball Hall of
Fame
30 Colin Kaepernick was one, familiarly
31 Hollered
32 Crop circles, e.g.
33 Pro group?
34 Separate
35 Alternative to a Lamborghini
36 Furnish with feathers, as an arrow
37 Go out of business?
38 “Capeesh?”
39 Biden and Harris, once: Abbr.
41 Nowhere near engaged
44 English adjective that becomes a French noun when an accent is added
46 Print examiner, for short
47 “___, me!”