NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
No. 0522
ACROSS
1 Regarding
6 Take back, in a way
10 Start of an aside
14 Omega competitor
15 Something hitting a nerve?
16 Papyrus, e.g.
17 “Take me with you!”
18 Begin flirting with someone, so to speak
20 Assign
21 Hoth, in “Star Wars”
22 ___ rule
23 They don’t hold water
24 Feudal figure 26 Panegyric, e.g.
27 Sci-fi enemy collective, perhaps
31 Ones born beginning in the early 2010s
37 They might cut to the chase
38 Electrically balanced, in chemistry
42 Leaders at the Kaaba
43 “Things are going great for me!”
46 Muscle worked in rowing exercises, for short
47 Portmanteau coinage for the uneducated and uncultured
48 Touches, e.g.
51 Special pawn move in chess
52 Many a Madrileño
53 Enemy of Wonder Woman
54 Best Picture-nominated 2011 film based on a children’s book
55 Certain Caribbean, informally
56 Self-___
57 What might help you get out of a rough spot?
58 Is just awful
DOWN
1 Home to 41-Down
2 Convince
3 “I wanna know all the details”
4 Start of a modern inquiry
5 Drink similar to sarsaparilla
6 Co-star of 1984’s “Ghostbusters”
7 Right on
8 Aces with aces?
9 Like some households
10 Designer with an eponymous hotel in the Burj Khalifa
11 Currency units in West Africa
12 Grievous
13 “Golden Boy” playwright
19 Actress Shawkat of “Arrested Development”
24 Assignment for an anchor
25 “___ noticed ...”
28 Great Hindu sage
29 Late-Triassic flier
30 It can be found right on a clock
32 “100 Years ... 100 Stars” and others, in brief
33 The world’s largest desert capital, after Cairo, Egypt
34 Like a relationship with an ex, maybe
35 Utterance while chewing on a pencil
36 One often sent packing?
38 Deity that becomes a given name when its fifth letter is moved to the front
39 Beat
40 Looking to steal, say
41 So-called “Land of a Million Elephants”
43 Building support
44 Words not everyone understands
45 Intimate
49 Hit on the head, in slang
50 Indian honorifics
Online subscriptions: Today’s puzzle and more than 7,000 past puzzles, nytimes.com/crosswords ($39.95 a year).
Read about and comment on each puzzle: nytimes.com/wordplay.