NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Flummoxed
6 ___ law 10 Member of the mammalian order Chiroptera (“hand wing”) 13 Late show?
14 It’s raised by a
wedge
15 Ecologist Leopold who advocated “thinking like a mountain” 16 Symbolic hand gesture in Hinduism
17 Like overcast
skies, in England 18 NYC neighborhood west of the Bowery
19 “This is too painful
to watch!”
21 Rod fitting in a
hole
22 Number written as a simple cross in Chinese
23 Festival at the end of Ramadan, informally
24 Cash in Jordan 25 Tomfoolery, e.g. 26 That way
28 Late ___
29 Means of making untraceable social media posts 32 Fragrant, buttery
breakfast offering 33 Something a veteran won’t make 34 Link abbr.
35 When said three times, “Come on, you all” 36 “___ advice?” 37 Stocks
39 Likely
40 Word with baby or
house 43 Prejudiced
person
44 Using frozen grapes as ice cubes and binder clips as cable organizers, e.g. 47 “Gotcha” 48 Aristocratic type,
in British slang 49 Disney’s “___ of
Avalor” 50 “Meh”-inducing 51 Subject of a houseguest’s query 52 Small-time 53 Gender-affirming treatment, in brief
54 Type of
chalcedony 55 Broods
DOWN
1 Grudgingly agree 2 “No hard
feelings?”
3 Kia Cadenza, e.g. 4 Take home
5 Event that might include poetry, but not pros?
6 “This is a
disaster!” 7 Subway fare? 8 Unassuming 9 Tricksy
10 Fly off the handle 11 Follower
12 You might throw a
wrench into it 15 Like the author of
“Beowulf,” in brief 20 Carl who pioneered modern taxonomy 21 “Hot Stuff” and “I’m Every Woman,” e.g. 24 Roll with many
functions 25 James Brown
genre 26 Afternoon hour in
Québec
27 John equivalent 29 Cell authority,
maybe 30 Courteney Cox was the only “Friends” star who never got one 31 Sommelier’s
adjective
32 It goes door to
door 33 Codswallop 38 Like some orders 39 Tack on 40 Segment made of
lines
41 “Right!” 42 Prerevolutionary
rulers
44 Tender ender 45 Dubious
46 Came down 48 Afternoon hour