The New York Times Crossword Puzzle

EVANS CLINCHY

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 anticonsumerist 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-tonoun suffix 54 Slump