The New York Times Crossword
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