NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Prefix with directional 5 Border
9 Sort who refuses to
answer
13 A sumo wrestler's is
called a mawashi 15 Catherine of “Schitt's
Creek”
16 Spot remover? 17 Candle holders,
sometimes
18 Close
19 Prophetic
21 ___-jongg
23 U.S. locale that, when said quickly, sounds like a cheer 24 Highway exit sign 25 As seen in chemistry
class? 29 Velvet-voiced Mel 31 Word with happy or
rush
32 Causing a boom,
maybe
36 Pokémon that ultimately evolves into Alakazam
37 Digital alternative 38 ___ of Citium, philosopher who founded Stoicism 39 Vulnerable area
41 Keen
42 Monster's opposite 43 Doctrines
45 ___-term test for divergence (calculus concept) 47 Improvise on stage 49 San Francisco's ___ Hill 50 Grammy winner for 1983's “Flashdance ... What a Feeling” 53 Small flaw 56 Ambulatory aids
57 Manet called him “the painter of painters” 60 Cousin of an aardwolf 61 Unlikely match
62 ___ noche (tonight: Sp.)
63 Source
64 Its website has a “Fantasy” page
DOWN
1 Up there, you might say
2 Stock exchange? 3 Close
4 Unable to perform operations 5 Weisshorn, e.g. 6 Astronomer Thomas for whom a comet is named
7 Not yet delivered, after “in”
8 Status on a conservationist's “Red List”
9 Non-coffee Starbucks order
10 Germans call it Genfersee
11 Political ___
12 They're rigged 14 Board game set on an
island
15 “It ___ to me ...”
20 Unit equal to 907.2
kilograms
22 Like only one member of the Supreme Court in its history (Sonia Sotomayor)
25 Solvers'
reactions
26 Lead-in to call
27 Browse, say
28 Seek advancement
through flattery 30 Only one-word country that contains all five vowels
33 Literature's Napoleon,
e.g.
34 Contending
35 Best Picture winner in
2022
40 W.N.B.A. great
Weatherspoon 44 Highly exaggerated and subjective, as journalism 45 Specialization 46 High-chair features 48 Italian nickname that
omits Al
51 “99 Luftballons” singer 52 Big name in fashion
footwear
54 Holds gingerly,
maybe
55 Underwater forest 58 Charade
59 Kind of garden