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Goings On • What we’re watching, listening to, and doing this week.

Tables for Two: Borgo • 124 E. 27th St.

Comment: After Assad

The Wayward Press: ThuggerDaily Speaks

Wardrobe Dept.: Stitching Oz

Hyphenate Dept.: Bookworm

The Pictures: Paws and All

Annals of Gastronomy: Stirring Stuff • A secret history of risotto.

Shouts & Murmurs: The Most Dangerous Cruciverbalists of the Twentieth Century

Puzzles & Games Dept.: Grocery Run

Comic Strip: First Fast

Puzzles & Games Dept.: Yule Log • This wintry dessert has been adorned with almond pinecones and marzipan mushrooms. The final decoration: a hundred letters, to be filled in by you. When completed, the grid will contain two chains of words—one reading inward from 1 to 100, and the other reading outward from 100 to 1. Every space will contain one letter and will be used in both an inward and an outward entry.

Comic Strip: A Family Roast

Comic Strip: Bored Game

Puzzles & Games Dept.: Complements of the Chef • While the chef is busy dealing with an oven that’s on the fritz, it’s up to you to put together the pairings for tonight’s nine-course menu. Every clue below has a one-word answer; as a hint, the answers in each column are in alphabetical order. After solving each clue, match an answer on the left with one on the right to make a well-known phrase, name, or compound word containing a food, then draw a straight line between each pair. When you’re done, the crossed-out letters on the table, read from top to bottom, will spell the menu’s theme.

Comic Strip: Snacks of New England

Laugh Lines • Laughter is the best coping mechanism for the holidays, a fact that New Yorker cartoonists have known for nearly a century. The cartoons below were originally published between 1929 and 2020. Can you match each one with its corresponding year on the time line? To get you started, one has already been filled in. Good luck with, you know, everything.

Puzzles & Games Dept.: The Supper Soirée • Every year, six friends—Barbara, Cindy, Julie, Kara, Marina, and Nan—gather for a meal inspired by Judy Chicago’s art installation “The Dinner Party.” Each guest dresses as a different woman from the installation: Elizabeth I, Georgia O’Keeffe, Hrosvitha, Ishtar, Kali, and Sojourner Truth. Owing to dietary restrictions, each friend chooses a different dish to eat. Can you use the clues on the opposite page to determine where each guest sat, whom she dressed as, and what she ate? A solving grid is provided for tracking your inferences and ruling out impossible combinations. If you need help getting started, consult the hint below the grid.

Puzzles & Games Dept.: Stop Right There! • A crossword that takes things too far.

Comic Strip: Goops and Slops

Puzzles & Games Dept.: Recipe Swap • You’ve inherited a box of recipe cards from your grandmother, who went to great lengths to protect her culinary secrets. To decipher her code, translate the picture (or pictures) on each card into two words, then anagram the letters to spell out one of the dishes depicted on the right.

Sketchbook: The Funnies • Cartoons about fine, good, and excellent dining to whet your appetite.

Profiles: Outside Man • How Brady Corbet turned artistic frustration into an American epic.

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