NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Noodle house

noodles 5 Checkout counter

option

15 The opposing side 16 “Attention!” 17 Mother in

“Hairspray” 18 Optimist’s mantra 19 Time out? 20 Becomes well

known

21 “Take that,

sucka!”

23 It “will find a way,” according to Virgil

24 Fraternité fellows 25 Some hard rock 26 What’s the

matter? 28 Western tribe 29 “The Simpsons”

sycophant 31 “Duuude”

32 “Man will do many things to get himself loved, he will do all things to get himself ___”: Mark Twain 33 Certain twowheeler 36 Cable channel that once won a Four Freedoms Award for freedom of speech

37 Early showings 39 ___ latte 41 Easternmost of fashion’s “Big Four” cities 42 “Kanthapura”

novelist Raja ___ 43 “A ___ should not mean / But be”: Archibald MacLeish

44 Lean

45 Foo Fighters

founder Dave 47 Paragons 50 Disney queen voiced by Idina Menzel 51 Mozart’s “Il Re

Pastore,” e.g. 52 Unit of work 53 Sexennial

event

54 Cultural

leader? 55 Bad-mouths 56 What seeds often

have

DOWN

1 Investments often associated with CDs 2 “Yikes!,” quaintly 3 Economist who shared a Daytime Emmy with Jimmy Kimmel in 1999 4 Master of strings 5 Ballet move 6 “Kiss Me Deadly” rocker

7 Guru residences 8 Is closefisted 9 Nail-biting

10 “___ Dinka Doo” (theme song of Jimmy Durante) 11 Place to celebrate the Autumn Moon Festival

12 Turned into 13 Estée Lauder

fragrance for men 14 Some

inheritances 22 Baba ghanouj

ingredient 27 Typical

Snapchatter 28 Strong

recommendation 30 Soap-making

equipment?

31 A new computer program may be in it

33 Source of sodium

in the wild 34 Study of the

atmosphere 35 “Uh-huh … ri-i-ight”

37 Kind of

deposit

38 Classic Stanislaw

Lem sci-fi novel

39 Mini maker,

originally 40 Capital that’s home to Last Chance Gulch 41 City and county of

central California 43 German toast 44 48-Down

subgroup

46 Help for users 48 University department, for short 49 Freelancers’ enclosures, for short