The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Metric weight unit 5 Water-skiing spot

9 Train travel

13 Dalai ___ (spiritual leader) 14 Hat’s edge

15 Actor Alan of “M*A*S*H” 16 *Mattel offering with cards for making “hilarious comparisons” 19 Pescetarianism and

veganism, for two

20 Title for Walter Scott

or Isaac Newton

21 Bit of skin ink

22 Conclude

23 *Washington’s official

state sport since 2022 27 Gazpacho or pho

29 Negative replies

30 One nickname for Elizabeth 31 Autoinjection device 33 Seriously uncool 35 *Beanbag-tossing sport 37 Kick off

39 Worried feeling

42 Mix

43 Sandwich that’s usually

toasted, informally

44 Actor Hemsworth

46 *App craze of the early

2010s, familiarly 50 Swim-bike-run race, for short 51 Pose questions

52 Tic-tac-toe win

53 Olympic great Jesse 55 Dystopian novel/film series … or what the answers to the starred clues are?

59 Rosemary or mint 60 Medical breakthrough 61 Matter before a court 62 Canadian gas brand 63 “Don’t worry your

pretty little ___” 64 Chooses

DOWN

1 Forest clearings

2 U.S. soccer star Megan 3 Filled with intense

excitement

4 Grain used in

beermaking

5 Ozs. and ozs.

6 “Wherefore ___

thou Romeo?”

7 Stalls at malls

8 Send a message

by computer

9 Genre for Da Brat or DaBaby 10 Full of hot air

11 “In a perfect world ...”

12 “In conclusion …” 17 Mind-reading

ability, for short 18 ___-Columbian

(up to 1492)

24 Unreactive

25 New Haven’s state: Abbr. 26 Get serious

28 Jean-Luc ___, captain

of the U.S.S. Enterprise 32 Olympic code for

Lisbon’s land

33 Dos and ___

34 Cry at a soccer stadium 36 Streaming service

with “The Bear”

37 Apt rhyme of “caches” 38 Fiddles (with)

40 Guide to navigating

an internet resource 41 Sincere

42 Harshly denounce 43 Sturdy shoe, or

an Irish accent 45 Opposites of hits 47 “Who asked ___?” 48 Spiral-shelled mollusk 49 Refuse to share

54 Texas city that’s home

to Baylor University 56 “True Detective” airer 57 Period of history

58 “___ (Taylor’s Version),”

#1 album of 2021