Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
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!”