The New York Times crossword puzzle
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 45Down
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 diesel-powered 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 Tonywinning 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!”