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