NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD

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)