NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
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 Picturenominated 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 41Down
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