The New York Times crossword puzzle

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-i-ght” 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

David Phillips