N.Y. T I MES C RO S S WORD

ACROSS

1 Snack product once owned by General Mills

8 Like many a yoga master 14 Words from one preparing to knock back a few

16 Just think of something 17 FedEx Office alternative

18 Four of a kind, say 19 The

“Black Paintings” and others 20 Temple offering: Abbr. 22 Checkout choice

23 Big biceps, slangily 24 Very fine example 26 Spot for a slicer

27 Without a script, briefly

28 Get pooped 30 Letters for a proof reader 31 Woman of the world? 33 Cherished by

35 Things kept in bottles 36 Squiggly musical symbols

38 Dr. Jekyll creator’s inits.

39 Tenor part in Donizetti’s “Don Pasquale” 40 “There is no ___ higher than truth”: Gandhi

43 Nickname for a man whose name means “merciful”

45 Ava DuVernay film subject 46 Beverage brand with a lizard logo 47 Stuff in a den, once 49 Skater Babilonia 50 Dive

51 One getting in on the hustle? 53 “That was nice!” 55 Choice word 56 Diabolical 57 Beaks

58 “How can I say no?!” DOWN 1 Comics character with a pug nose

2 Golfer’s near miss 3 Together 4 Features of Hopi lands in Arizona 5 Dashes

(off)

6 Start of some thoughts shared on social media 7 Informal name for Vespa mandarinia 8 Blasted 9 Tagged, for short 10 Handed (out) 11 Occasion for smoking

12 Amazon and others 13 Reason not to go swimming in the ocean 15 Itsy-bitsy 21 Longrunning fictional hero who made his debut in “Call for the Dead” 24 Heebiejeebies

25 Antiinsomnia drug 28 Dessert you might be “liable” to eat? 29 Relative of molto, in music 31 Calendar abbr.

32 Quaint agreement 33 Slight headache, maybe 34 Gradually become familiar with

36 Things scanned nowadays 37 Put down again, as tiles

40 It’s a treat

41 One found among the reeds

42 Bathymetry measurements

44 A lot

46 Peachy

48 Cross

50 Makes tracks, in a way

52 $200 Monopoly properties, for short

54 “___ known rivers” (start of a Langston Hughes poem)