NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Actor Sean of “Stranger Things”
6 “Right on!”
10 Driver’s place
13 Ancient allegory paralleled in the plot of “The Matrix”
15 ___ Addams, first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize
16 Tales of woe
17 Prod
18 Some short releases, for short
19 “Oh, gimme a break!”
21 Spots for fighter jets, in brief
22 Journalist who wrote the 1990s-2000s comic strip “Capitol Hell”
23 Ice cream dessert
25 One who’s taken a vow
26 Chafed, say
28 Gobble up
29 Locale near the headwaters of the Tigris and Euphrates, some believe
30 Dating inits.
31 Unmotivated, and then some
32 Holy ___
33 Sustenance
35 Cheyenne, e.g.: Abbr. 36 “That’s a ___”
38 Forces (upon)
39 Inebriate
40 “Young Man With a Skull” painter
41 Throws heavenward
42 Split
44 Really soak up the sun
45 Cassius Dio said it went “from a kingdom of gold to one of rust and iron”
47 Mac
50 Winter Olympics feat
51 Product of tissue engineering, such as artificial skin
53 Contemptible sort
54 “Come help me with this”
55 Contemptible sort 56 Doesn’t check, say
57 Big buttes
DOWN
1 Locale of the Chair of Saint Peter in Saint Peter’s Basilica
2 Unappetizing bowlful
3 Things often seen in windows
4 “___ magic!”
5 Statement of inevitability
6 The Taj Mahal complex has 42 of them
7 Eldest of the Pleiades
8 When a vesper bell rings
9 Beverage brand portmanteau
10 High on the job?
11 Pets that commonly have differentcolored eyes, such as one blue and one amber
12 Existed
14 Like many minor-key compositions
15 Sharp increase
20 Hardly a test of one’s memory
21 “Mi ___” (Spanish words of endearment)
23 Portable lunch options from Japan
24 Dingy kitchen items?
25 Is lachrymose
27 Brings together
28 Brings down
32 Place of drudgery
34 Riddled
37 Marathon runner’s wear
38 Like bootleg pants
43 Eponymous founder of a San Diego research institute
44 Really stinks
45 Hindi for “king”
46 Amanda Gorman, e.g.
47 Diagonal kind of cut
48 It has coronoid and styloid processes
49 Spots for shams
52 When italicized, word before something exemplary