NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Jargon

6 Symbol of Hawaii 10 Cry from a doll 14 Setting for “Life of Pi”

15 What makes juice expensive? 17 Strength 18 Ethnocentric lens critiqued by Toni Morrison

19 Makes plans for the future?

21 Some sculptures and sexts 22 Breakaway groups 23 Not to be trusted 26 Agent, informally 27 Limbo prerequisite 28 Neopronoun with a nod to folklore 31 Something not to look after? 33 Pisces, but not Aquarius 35 “Gotcha”

37 Washer dryer? 38 Capitalizes on 39 Rapper Megan Thee Stallion ___ Tina Snow

40 It’s often drawn with three ellipses 41 Overcome decision fatigue

42 British weight 43 Gives an edge

46 ___ Beer Hall (Tokyo landmark) 49 Question to an indecisive pet 51 Record skip? 55 Sought help from during a crisis 56 “Knew that was coming” 57 Sympathetic assurance 58 Alphabetize, e.g. 59 Tyne with six Emmys

60 Book that becomes a synonym for “Finally!” when “t” is added to the end

DOWN

Like old-fashioned sound reproduction 2 Legends

3 Cheek or backbone 4 Pretend to know the host, say

5 Not in bounds? 6 Chops

7 Granite State sch. 8 Symbol of Hawaii 9 Graffiti, e.g.

10 “Bro!”

11 Ever so slightly 12 Robotics club challenge

13 Chops

16 Joy that might come from being aligned in one’s body

20 Recipe abbr. 23 “Please, can you just not”

24 Place that distributes things in tiny bottles

1 25 ___ Hardison, Aldis Hodge’s character on “Leverage”

28 V

29 Characteristics that rarely change in cartoons

30 Wind up

31 Bit of whistleblowing, maybe 32 “___ bien” 33 Champions’ cry 34 Movie whose sequel was subtitled “Back in the Habit”

35 Aid in getting a job

in marketing, in brief 36 Attend

41 Be accountable for 42 Current issue? 44 Like the Navajo

language

45 Ancient Hindu text 46 ___ climbing a tree (Sichuan noodle dish)

47 N.Y.C. neighborhood

near Little Italy 48 Multinational hardware and electronics brand 49 Really teeny 50 They’re separated

at some salons 52 Prefix with

week or wife 53 “When are you

getting here?” 54 Bagel