Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
The New York Times crossword puzzle
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 glutenfree 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 ___, co-star 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