The New York Times Crossword

No. 1202

ACROSS

1 Like the Galactic Empire and

Rebel Alliance, in science fiction

6 Dutch Golden Age painter 10 Big ___

14 Statement of admiration after

someone’s impressive feat 16 Fruit whose name is threequarters vowels

17 Annual New Year’s Day event 18 “Freak on a Leash” band 19 “Mm-hmm”

20 A whole bunch

21 It’s there by default

23 Loudly lachrymates

24 Calm

25 What to do?

28 Statement that is, in fact, not

part of the Hippocratic oath 30 High-protein paste

31 Plain and blunt

33 Pace

34 Covert influencer

37 Air pollution portmanteau 38 Still a contender

39 It may be raised at a table 40 What’s spread all over

southern France?

42 Wing alternatives

44 Hands off (to)

45 Reason to run in circles? 46 Still

47 Less than hardly

48 ___ punk (genre for No

Doubt)

51 Life sentences?

52 Constantly posting pictures and news about one’s kids on social media

55 Beyond regulation, for short 56 “Hold your horses”

57 Rice and Curry

58 ___ ginger, a.k.a. galangal 59 Takes orders

DOWN

1 Sideways

2 Grand

3 The fairyfly (the smallest known insect in the world) is one

4 Took something with a grain

of salt, maybe

5 Boastful Eminem title with the Guinness world record for “most words in a hit single” (1,560)

6 Ingredients pronounced differently in American and British English

7 Thin cell types

8 Stuff in microdots

9 Squash or smoosh, maybe 10 Fall for a trick, say 11 Criticizing a refusal to recycle,

e.g.

12 Work in progress?

13 When doubled, comment

made with a wink 15 “The Little Prince” trees 22 They get down and dirty 23 Bores

24 “Likewise”

25 Something critical to have 26 Two-ingredient cocktail usually served with an olive or lemon twist

27 Breakout site

28 Tackling group, for short 29 Second-most frequently mentioned individual in the Quran, after Jesus

32 One side of a chemistry scale 35 Spanish little ones

36 Said

41 Kit for creative types 43 “Whoa, calm down!” 45 Daughter of Catherine of

Aragon

46 “Ish”

47 Launch party? 48 “Ciertamente!”

49 Close-___

50 Some Hollywood workers:

Abbr.

53 Taunting cry

54 It’s typically taken in the

afternoon