The New York Times crossword puzzle

Across

1 Has balance

issues

5 Actress Rae who played President Barbie in “Barbie”

9 Soapstone

mineral

13 Contempt

14 “Seriously? I guess I’m the only remaining holdout then”

16 Sierra follower

17 Tacky item in a kindergarten classroom

18 What one might hope for in a tight spot

20 Pie accompaniment?

21 Approach

22 Signal for a change in direction?

23 Tour group, in

brief 25 Descendents of Abraham and Ishmael

27 Part of Cruella

de Vil’s get-up

32 ___ Planet

(travel guidebook series)

34 Theme of Adele’s “Someone Like You”

35 Many a Coral

Sea island

36 Something in a gondola’s forcola

37 Mists

38 “For real!”

40 Remove

surgically

41 Word on a common bumper sticker

42 Sounds of relief

43 Calculation that might include calculus, for short

44 Mo. when Paul

Revere rode

45 Role in “Evita”

48 Like the Gwyndodeg and Powyseg dialects

52 Term largely replaced by “Zoom”

55 “No problem at

all”

57 View from the Trans-Siberian Railway 58 Tex-Mex

condiment

59 Like some parsley and kale

60 Air quality

index factor

61 Casualty of a

1917 revolution

62 Fixes a border,

in a way

Down

1 Florida’s ___

National Forest

2 Just eked it out

3 Hence

4 Cold war

aggressions?

5 Pricey bars

6 Flying ___

7 Help out on the

campaign trail

8 Consent from a mate

9 Attire for many a Degas subject

10 “Keep ___!” 11 Geometric

points

12 Cuba libre

ingredient

13 Mélange

15 Trashy television character?

19 Raspberry

relative

24 Theater cat in

“Cats”

26 Enjoy a spa

day, say

28 Commit a fashion faux pas

29 Acts exceedingly friendly

30 French

preposition

31 LSAT section?

32 Like secular

concerns

33 Miranda who played Éowyn in “The Lord of the Rings” 34 It’s not long.

36 Foil to Mark Antony in “Julius Caesar”

39 Member of the family Viperidae

40 Ready, in a way

42 Lower

46 Campus

buildings

47 Online retailer headquartered in Brooklyn

48 Match ___

49 Gouda

alternative

50 Bananas

51 Lock lips, to a

Liverpudlian

53 People who worshiped the fertility goddess Pachamama

54 “Red, White & ___” (2005 heavy metal album)

56 Dojo surface

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