The New York Times Crossword

ACROSS

1 Sign of spring

7 Performs repetitive tasks to gain experience points, in gaming slang

12 Question in a lot of cars? 14 Hourglass contents, poetically 15 Lays into, with “out” 16 Inventor played by David

Bowie in “The Prestige” 17 Litter whimper

18 Pot grower?

19 Like certain corrections 20 Doesn’t stick out, say 21 Things once kept in towers 22 Twitter-sphere?

24 Thereabout

26 Red or green lights, maybe 28 Kind of network

30 Focus of the law of the land? 32 Emmy winner Patricia of

“Thirty-something”

34 “Good enough”

36 What can’t be done alone,

famously

38 Ballyhoo

39 Some social media postings 42 Rooster raised for eating 43 Impertinent sort

44 Small sample

45 Many a Hollywood production

assistant

46 Disney’s “___ Dragon” 47 Slide behind a speaker,

maybe 50 Buckwheat and others 51 Went head over heels? 52 Compound that becomes a man’s name when its last letter is removed

DOWN

1 Word with song or party 2 Name on a truck 3 Jacobean ___

4 Possible source of monthly

income

5 Supplements

6 Go out too late, perhaps 7 Org. running global championships since 1930

8 Felicitous

9 Sam of Hollywood 10 Mascot whose head is a

baseball

11 Isn’t objective with 12 “How’ve you been?”

13 One for the money

14 The most well-known one is

named for a Greek hero 15 Blue-ish

19 Hideout for Blackbeard 20 Savage

22 Where one might

drift off on a boat 23 Exasperated, say 25 Relationship strains?

27 The land down under? 29 Motivated, with “under” 31 Went round and round, in a

way

33 Watches amazedly

35 Line after a drop

37 Opposite of “Stat!” 39 Designs

40 In which Nunavut means “our

land”

41 Given on a platter

43 Role in 2020’s “The Trial of

the Chicago 7”

45 Metal that can be drawn into

a wire an atom wide

46 Work out

48 Acclaimed manga

artist Junji ___ 49 21st-century health inits.