The new york times crossword

ACROSS

1 Modern-da scrapbooks, of a sort

16 Common c bersec rit meas re

17 S ccessf ll strike a delicate balance

18 Home of the Kingdom of Dahome , toda 19 Balanced

20 Like a proposal in Congress that has ero chance of passing, in brief

21 ___ Morgenstern, a thor of “The Night Circ s” 22 Heav weight

wrestlers

24 Sign … or

signat re

25 Org. that emplo s Hank on “Breaking Bad” 26 Five-time

Gramm winning ja pianist McCo

___ 27 Something large often stored

pside down 28 Does

29 See e e to e e 30 A to parts brand

owned b GM 33 Part leader? 34 Special coffee

shop offerings 35 Sandwich made

with a telera roll 36 Shin b tton

material

37 E rope, Asia and

America

38 Some vaccine administrators, in brief

41 The low, low

price of

42 Ref ses to keep

going

43 Hand trick 44 Molec le that can interfere in gene expression 45 Member of an

elite force 46 Watercolor, cla

and others 47 Academic who works with man different schools, ma be 51 Sierra Nevada

offering 52 Mediocre at best

DOWN

1 Place to let

sleeping dogs lie 2 Arrival

anno ncement 3 Literar domain of Peter the Magnificent and S san the Gentle 4 Marketing link 5 ___ vital (life force, from the French) 6 Fire-engine ___ 7 Hearing monitor,

for short

8 Rh ming arrangements, e.g.

9 Comic Noah who wrote the a tobiographical “Born a Crime” 10 Actress

Amanda 11 Man a

to rnament 12 ___ and ran 13 “Good ___!” 14 Like a dirge 15 Athletic items never p rchased individ all 22 Aligns 23 Command after an accidental deletion

24 Kind of ra

26 Piña colada

topper

27 Goes for

28 One of two T dor

kings

29 Tangle in an

office

30 Not what o ’d

expect 31 Madiba, for

Nelson Mandela 32 States

33 Lo d bird so nd 35 Capital on the

G lf of Finland 37 Words s ng on

the same notes as “twinkle,” in a different n rser rh me 38 Branching o t

from the center 39 Longtime police proced ral that ended in 2023, informall 40 Expert with

fig res?

42 Wood for smoking ando ille sa sage 43 Philosopher who was a major infl ence on Marx

45 Hiss

46 One whose distance ma be meas red b the ard?

48 Division of the

Treas r Dept. 49 Black ___ 50 West Coast news

inits.

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