The New York Times

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 Long-running fictional hero who made his debut in “Call for the Dead” 24 Heebie-jeebies 25 Anti-insomnia 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)