N.Y. Times Crossword Puzzle
Across
1 Had kids on a farm?
7 Product whose main ingredient is canola oil
10 Scan in neuroscience research, in brief
14 Oratorio highlight in A-B-A form
16 Word like “cafe” or “bazaar”
17 Alien
18 Marginally
19 Confit ingredient
20 Declines
22 Words of warning in the grocery aisle
23 Stretchers go on top of them
25 “___-Raq” (2015 Spike Lee film)
26 Paddington Bear’s place of origin, before arriving in England
27 Head covering?
30 Certain onslaught on social media
32 First base?
33 Athlete prone to nerves, in slang
34 Philosopher and activist who wrote “Race Matters”
35 Be host to
39 Comedian Eldjárn with the Netflix special “Pardon My Icelandic”
40 ___ of poetry, beverage in Norse mythology that turns its drinker into an all-knowing scholar
41 Cause for alarm
42 -saur subjects?
44 Passed off as genuine
46 Chopper
47 Galaxy, e.g.
50 Place with a tree of immortality in the Quran
51 They signal a delivery
52 Nonsensical movement
53 “May I help you?”
54 Tries for
Down
1 Ultimately arrive (at)
2 Get going
3 Tool used in meat pie preparation
4 Left arrow, often
5 Instruct
6 What may be collected in trials
7 Opposite of guerra
8 Subject for conservationist Dian Fossey
9 Sockeroo
10 Tongue-lash
11 Complete pandemonium
12 Bit of attire that often has strings
13 All over something
15 Loc. ___ (footnote abbr.)
21 M.L.B. team with a mascot named Orbit
23 Cut corners, perhaps?
24 Gives a heads-up
27 Without getting beat
28 Home of a parliament on Parliament Hill
29 Singer on the 1960s hits “Wooly Bully” and “Li’l Red Riding Hood”
31 Napper’s request
32 Said “A mouse!,” say
33 Bull session?
34 Himalayan resting place
36 Name on a Belgian brew
37 Where the composers Schubert, Berg, Schönberg and Webern were all born
38 First in line, usually
41 Superstrong redhead of kidlit
43 Princess with an L.G.B.T.Q. cult following
44 To’s opposite
45 Por ___ parte (moreover, in Spanish)
48 Jemison in the National Women’s Hall of Fame
49 Twists are good for them