The New York Times Crossword
ACROSS
1 Popular Korean rice dish
9 Facial expression
15 Bach’s “Christmas ___” 16 Offline activity?
17 Towered over
18 Sugar in one’s coffee, e.g. 19 Ancient land that included parts of modern Iraq and Turkey
20 Place to buy overpriced
drinks
21 Keane who drew “The Family
Circus”
22 Do some light cardio
23 Ink
24 Quarters feed into them 27 Kind of salami
29 His debut album was 1987’s
“Rhyme Pays”
30 Tears
35 “Ahhh!”
37 “Wow, wow, wow!”
38 It’s made by coagulating soy
milk
39 Mammal with four toes on the front feet and three on the back
40 Pleasantly flavorful 41 Financing figs.
45 C’est un article défini 46 Certain judge’s ruling 47 Portmanteau for a dumpsterdiving anti-consumerist eater 49 One might be offensive 53 Just peachy
54 Deliberately damage 55 Possible cause of fatigue 56 Mean figures 57 People people 58 Milky Way and others
DOWN
1 Bubble tea
2 Ticks off
3 Amp knob
4 Minute
5 Northern New Jersey county
6 Oven setting
7 Sophia Loren title role of 1953
8 He once wrote “I became insane, with long intervals of horrible sanity”
9 Fifth-century invaders
10 “That’s my cue!”
11 Challenge in an alley
12 Dutch-speaking Caribbean island
13 Insinuated
14 Wisconsin governor Tony
20 The original Frankenstein wasn’t one, despite popular belief
22 Competes in the Aquabike World Championship
24 Jedi foe 25 Second
26 Fast finish?
27 Shook one’s defender, in sports lingo
28 “___ You Experienced” (Jimi Hendrix album)
30 It’s all downhill from here
31 Passing financial concern?
32 Per
33 First name in U.N. diplomacy
34 Draw counterpart
36 Follower of F.D.R.
40 Madame, across the Pyrenees
41 It has a duck float in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade
42 Inclined
43 Have a ball
44 Directive to talk
46 Some smears
48 A little too slick
49 It’s hot stuff!
50 Noted gift givers
51 He won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1958
52 Adjective-to-noun suffix
54 Slump