Question mark (?) = Wordplay

Across:

1. Someone else’s thing you cross when you meet them

5. Hamlet: Go to, I’ll no more on’t, it ____ made me mad

9. Wading bird related to the heron

11. Metallica’s ______ Sandman

13. Garlicky dipping sauce

14. Language group with over 150 varieties

15. Movie about a jungle-gym?

17. Negatively charged chemical suffix

19. Affirmative

20. Co-op accused of union-busting activities

21. Pick up the check

22. Movie about fine whiskey?

26. Operatic solos

29. Oceanic duck

30. Enormous movie?

34. Yankees great Gehrig

35. Listening part

36. Ol’ dads, maybe

39. When they’ll get there (ish)

40. Movie about holding on tight?

43. Be-all’s partner

45. Make overwhelmingly happy

46. Main character and author of Smile and its sequels

47. Relating to the mood of the piece

48. They might tell your future

49. “Land” in Maine and Oregon

Down:

1. Easy ____

2. Quick-moving

3. Three, in France

4. Hung on

5. Adjective for firemen or doctors, maybe

6. Refreshed or reloaded

7. Medicine taken home, abbr.

8. Landing spot for a chopper

10. Put in a knot

12. Orangutan’s description, maybe

14. “Prince of Cool” trumpeter Baker

16. Ticket that doesn’t guarantee you somewhere to sit, for short

18. One looking at something

22. Blood of a tree

23. Show with Vegas and Miami editions

24. 2013 Joaquin Phoenix film

25. Even the score

26. Possesses the necessary skill

27. One fighting in a scuffle

28. Lizards that Jeff Bezos once famously ate

31. Room below your room

32. Body part lost by Winnie-the-pooh’s donkey friend

33. Resting place on a mantel

36. Forte’s opposite

37. Where a speaker speaks, sometimes

38. Extract metal from its ore

40. Walking stick

41. Attain

42. Broadway or film failure

44. Pass on

This crossword also appears in our November 2024 print edition.