#CROSSWORD
NEW YORK TIMES
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
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 Comic-con 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