The New York Times crossword puzzle
Across
1 Has balance issues 5 Actress Rae who played President Barbie in “Barbie” 9 Soapstone mineral 13 Contempt 14 “Seriously? I guess I’m the only remaining holdout then” 16 Sierra follower 17 Tacky item in a kindergarten classroom 18 What one might hope for in a tight spot
20 Pie accompaniment? 21 Approach 22 Signal for a change in direction? 23 Tour group, in brief 25 Descendents of Abraham and Ishmael 27 Part of Cruella de Vil’s get-up 32 ___ Planet (travel guidebook series) 34 Theme of Adele’s “Someone Like You” 35 Many a Coral Sea island 36 Something in a gondola’s forcola 37 Mists
38 “For real!” 40 Remove surgically 41 Word on a common bumper sticker 42 Sounds of relief 43 Calculation that might include calculus, for short
44 Mo. when Paul Revere rode 45 Role in “Evita” 48 Like the Gwyndodeg and Powyseg dialects 52 Term largely replaced by “Zoom”
55 “No problem at all”
57 View from the Trans-Siberian Railway
58 Tex-Mex condiment 59 Like some parsley and kale
60 Air quality index factor 61 Casualty of a 1917 revolution 62 Fixes a border, in a way
Down
1 Florida’s ___ National Forest 2 Just eked it out 3 Hence
4 Cold war aggressions? 5 Pricey bars 6 Flying ___ 7 Help out on the campaign trail 8 Consent from a mate 9 Attire for many a Degas subject 10 “Keep ___!”
11 Geometric points 12 Cuba libre ingredient 13 Mélange 15 Trashy television character? 19 Raspberry relative 24 Theater cat in “Cats” 26 Enjoy a spa day, say 28 Commit a fashion faux pas
29 Acts exceedingly friendly 30 French preposition 31 LSAT section? 32 Like secular concerns 33 Miranda who played Éowyn in “The Lord of the Rings”
34 It’s not long. 36 Foil to Mark Antony in “Julius Caesar” 39 Member of the family Viperidae 40 Ready, in a way 42 Lower 46 Campus buildings 47 Online retailer headquartered in Brooklyn 48 Match ___ 49 Gouda alternative 50 Bananas 51 Lock lips, to a Liverpudlian 53 People who worshiped the fertility goddess Pachamama 54 “Red, White & ___” (2005 heavy metal album) 56 Dojo surface