The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS 1 Major Indian tourist site

5 Comes down hard 10 “This isn’t good at all!”

13 Word with round or head 14 Tippy-tops

15 Sore spot

16 Part of La-La

Land

18 “It’s ___ real” 19 Charles

Schwab offering 20 Transition effect famously used in “Star Wars” films 21 Their sales rose in 2021 and 2022, after two decades of decline

22 Medicinal amt. 23 Gnats and curs, e.g.

25 Title of respect 26 Off! ingredient 28 Simu ___, star of “Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings” 29 End-of-week greeting 32 Tourist-spots, maybe?

33 On the struggle bus, it might be said

34 Result of being fired?

35 QB stats 36 Comic actor who co-created “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” 37 Like Turkish coffee

39 Wear and tear 40 Quick pick-meup?

43 Nitwit 44 Bordelaise, for one

47 Box with a view 48 Home country, poetically 49 Top-notch 50 Top-notch 51 Electrically flexible

52 Web portal released the same day as Windows 95 53 Elizabeth of “WandaVision” 54 Fancy-y-y

DOWN 1 Top story 2 Drudgery

3 Pickled watermelon parts 4 Place for a prayer 5 Brother from another mother, maybe

6 Make a scene, aptly

7 Comment following a cue 8 Blue

9 ID on a filing 10 Part of a cold shower, maybe 11 Alternative to bread crumbs in some gluten-free recipes

12 Earring Magic ___ (1990s doll that developed a cult following) 15 Some

17 Touchdown follower, often 20 Quarter Pounder qualifier

23 Playoff format 24 Aggregate

25 Fitted with footwear

26 Georgia team, to fans

27 Column on an airport flight board, informally 29 First winner of the Canadian Comedy Awards’ Person of the

Year (2008) 30 Disposition

31 Sea line?

32 Some fellows, informally 33 “Illmatic” rapper 38 Words of encouragement 39 Join forces

40 Kaley ___, costar of “The Big Bang Theory” 41 They’re far from basic

42 Natural gas emission?

44 Feature of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial 45 “Really?”

46 Memo letters 47 Flight

48 It has a new meaning