NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Record label for Pink, SZA and H.E.R.
4 The “handsaw” in Hamlet’s “I know a hawk from a handsaw”
9 Song words preceding “his kiss”
14 They’re often caving, but not spelunking 16 Everybody’s opposite
17 “That’s genius!” 18 Put off
19 Show of Force? 20 Attacked in a snowball fight 21 A popular nightclub might have one
22 Take risks 23 Rutabaga, for one
26 “It’s all over for us!”
29 Canine protector
31 ___ system
32 Stage of metamorphosis 33 Syst. in which “Deaf Power” can be indicated by an open palm over one ear and the other hand forming a closed fist in the air
34 Couches
37 Hound
38 Toni Morrison title
40 Andre Young a.k.a. Dr. ___ 41 Architectural finish
43 Foe-run land? 46 Unnaturally white
47 Work through seven stages, say
48 Like holographic Pokémon cards 50 Takes it easy
51 Passage that might be a mess after a rainstorm 55 Kidney-related 56 Exonerating words
57 Stand and deliver?
58 “The Bachelor” outing
59 Not natural, in a way
60 Havens
61 Rubik’s Cube,
once
DOWN
1 World of Warcraft and Final Fantasy, for short
2 Terse
3 Offshore
4 Starts off-key? 5 ___-les-bains, spa town on Lake Geneva 6 Amended, as a map
7 Some Minecraft blocks
8 Org. that advises on ransomware risk mitigation 9 Taking too much credit, say
10 Simple skating jump
11 Release of a new product to a limited audience
12 “This relationship has been a bit overwhelming” 13 Many a Comiccon attendee
15 ___ Renaissance 20 Vexes
22 Skara ___, Scottish site of Europe’s most complete Neolithic village 23 Ride
24 Pandemic health worker, say
25 Ones whose careers have turning points?
27 “The door’s open!”
28 Attach
30 Some Best Buy offerings
35 “Fair point” 36 High-value ones are called “unicorns”
39 “Has the meeting already begun?” 42 Account recovery need 44 Gave a hoot 45 Bugles alternative
49 Lock horns
50 Cut down to size, maybe 51 Bilingual girl of TV and film 52 “Frozen” figure 53 Princess in “A Bug’s Life”
54 Not natural, in a way
56 Many a humanitarian effort, in brief