NEW YORK TIMES CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Trash
5 Kind of rock
9 Toni Morrison title character who lives in the Bottom 13 Lower-cost option at a supermarket, usually
15 Fresh
16 Furry creature that Wallace becomes during the full moon, in a “Wallace & Gromit” film
17 Bio subject
18 “___ changed” 19 Feature of the inner planets
20 Thread count? 21 Facebook allows for more than 50 23 Reciprocal of a siemens
24 Sharon Olds’s “___ to Dirt”
25 Hush puppies alternative 27 Restaurant starter, informally 30 Prominent attire for Jr. Pac-man 35 Assumes
36 Grande and others
37 Actress Susan 38 Order at a lodge 39 It’s sold by the yard 40 Good things to have for a private party 41 What a trip! 45 Alliterative partner of 45-Down 48 Proceeds smoothly 50 Creature whose male incubates the eggs, during which it won’t eat, drink or defecate for 50+ days
51 Trails
52 New York City setting of the “Eloise” books 54 It may be bonded 55 “Much obliged!” 56 Whom to call “maman”
57 Guard, perhaps 58 Current
DOWN
1 Martin or Harvey 2 Actress with an Academy Award for 1960’s “Two Women”
3 Amount to
4 Maker of the world’s first dieselpowered passenger car
5 Photographer Diane
6 Pickup line?
7 Still alive, so to speak
8 Noted organochloride, in brief
9 Boston exurb
10 Bell Labs development of the 1970s
11 Took off
12 Floors
13 Amount from a flask, maybe
14 Amounts from a distillery, maybe 20 Program replaced by “CBS This Morning” 22 Olympics rulebreaker
23 Like Tony-winning
plays
25 Brightens, with “up” 26 ASCAP and
A.S.P.C.A.: Abbr. 27 Lead-in to date 28 Walk on water? 29 Disposable shoe
liners
30 What cognitive behavioral therapy might treat, in brief 31 Grade 32 “Capisce?”
33 Sure thing
34 Home of the two deepest canyons in the Americas (each 11,500+ feet) 40 Response at the
door
41 Gave off, in a way 42 ___ Hall
43 Change in writing 44 ’Tis the season to
be jolly
45 Kind of rock 46 Behind
47 2008 animated film with the tagline “He’s got a monster of a problem” 48 Barents Sea sight 49 Quad part
52 Stone 53 “Absolument!”