The New York Times Crossword
No. 1028
ACROSS
1 Flummoxed
6 ___ law
10 Member of the mammalian order Chiroptera (“hand wing”)
13 Late show?
14 It’s raised by a wedge
15 Ecologist Leopold who advocated “thinking like a mountain”
16 Symbolic hand gesture in Hinduism
17 Like overcast skies, in England
18 N.Y.C. neighborhood west of
the Bowery
19 “This is too painful to watch!”
21 Rod fitting in a hole
22 Number written as a simple cross in Chinese
23 Festival at the end of Ramadan, informally
24 Cash in Jordan
25 Tomfoolery, e.g.
26 That way
28 Late ___
29 Means of making untraceable social media posts
32 Fragrant, buttery breakfast offering
33 Something a veteran won’t make
34 Link abbr.
35 When said three times, “Come on, you all”
36 “___ advice?”
37 Stocks
39 Likely
40 Word with baby or house 43 Prejudiced person
44 Using frozen grapes as ice
cubes and binder clips as cable organizers, e.g. 47 “Gotcha”
48 Aristocratic type, in British
slang
49 Disney’s “___ of Avalor” 50 “Meh”-inducing
51 Subject of a houseguest’s
query
52 Small-time 53 Gender-affirming treatment,
in brief
54 Type of chalcedony 55 Broods
DOWN
1 Grudgingly agree
2 “No hard feelings?”
3 Kia Cadenza, e.g.
4 Take home
5 Event that might include poetry, but not pros?
6 “This is a disaster!”
7 Subway fare?
8 Unassuming
9 Tricksy
10 Fly off the handle 11 Follower
12 You might throw a wrench into it
15 Like the author of “Beowulf,” in brief
20 Carl who pioneered modern taxonomy
21 “Hot Stuff” and “I’m Every Woman,” e.g.
24 Roll with many functions
25 James Brown genre
26 Afternoon hour in Québec
27 John equivalent
29 Cell authority, maybe
30 Courteney Cox was the only “Friends” star who never got one
31 Sommelier’s adjective
32 It goes door to door 33 Codswallop
38 Like some orders
39 Tack on
40 Segment made of lines 41 “Right!”
42 Prerevolutionary rulers 44 Tender ender
45 Dubious
46 Came down
48 Afternoon hour