NEW YORK TIMES DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Had kids on a farm? 7 Product whose main ingredient is canola oil 10 Scan in neuroscience research, in brief 14 Oratorio highlight in A-B-A form 16 Word like “cafe” or “bazaar”
17 Alien 18 Marginally 19 Confit ingredient 20 Declines 22 Words of warning in the grocery aisle 23 Stretchers go on top of them 25 “___-Raq” (2015 Spike Lee film) 26 Paddington Bear’s place of origin, before arriving in England
27 Head covering? 30 Certain onslaught on social media 32 First base? 33 Athlete prone to nerves, in slang 34 Philosopher and activist who wrote “Race Matters” 35 Be host to 39 Comedian Eldjárn with the Netflix special “Pardon My Icelandic” 40 ___ of poetry, beverage in Norse mythology that turns its drinker into an all-knowing scholar 41 Cause for alarm 42 -saur subjects? 44 Passed off as genuine 46 Chopper 47 Galaxy, e.g. 50 Place with a tree of immortality in the Quran 51 They signal a delivery 52 Nonsensical movement 53 “May I help you?” 54 Tries for
DOWN
1 Ultimately arrive (at)
2 Get going
3 Tool used in meat pie preparation 4 Left arrow, often 5 Instruct
6 What may be collected in trials 7 Opposite of guerra 8 Subject for conservationist Dian Fossey 9 Sockeroo 10 Tongue-lash 11 Complete pandemonium 12 Bit of attire that often has strings 13 All over something 15 Loc. ___ (footnote abbr.)
21 MLB team with a mascot named Orbit
23 Cut corners, perhaps? 24 Gives a heads-up 27 Without getting beat
28 Home of a parliament on Parliament Hill
29 Singer on the 1960s hits “Wooly Bully” and “Li’l Red Riding Hood” 31 Napper’s request 32 Said “A mouse!,” say
33 Bull session? 34 Himalayan resting place
36 Name on a Belgian brew
37 Where the composers Schubert, Berg, Schönberg and Webern were all born
38 First in line, usually 41 Superstrong redhead of kid-lit 43 Princess with an LGBTQ cult following
44 To’s opposite 45 Por ___ parte (moreover, in Spanish) 48 Jemison in the National Women’s Hall of Fame 49 Twists are good for them