- CHINESE
- Official UN language
- Take-out option
- With 26-Across, ordering beef and broccoli but getting egg foo yong instead?
- Takeout cuisine
- The Wade-Giles system romanizes it
- Common cuisine
- Like acupuncture
- It can precede the start of 6- and 48-Across and 28-Down
- Food often taken out
- Lantern type
- Common takeout cuisine
- Like many a 12-Down
- With 39-Across, convenience that might include the dish spelled out by the first few letters of the answers to 16-, 22-, 50- and 60-Across
- Beijing-born, say
- Takeout option with egg rolls
- From Peking
- __ boxes (nested group)
- Boxers, by birth
- Cuisine with chow mein
- Takeout choice
- Like dim sum
- Celestial allies.
- Allies in Asia.
- Victims of Jap co-prosperity.
- People engaged in civil war.
- Subjects of the Mongol Emperor.
- Members of U. N.
- Mao's men.
- Victims of communism.
- 463,493,418 people.
- 475 million people.
- Transients on Formosa.
- 463,493,000 people.
- ___ white.
- People in "The Good Earth."
- Mandarin.
- Oriental.
- Asian.
- Shade of red
- Kind of puzzle
- Pearl Buck people
- People in Pearl Buck's "Sons"
- Kind of checkers
- Hakka or Wu
- Certain checkers
- Kind of lantern
- What's written here: 你好
- Taipei natives
- One-fifth of humankind
- Hong Kong residents, now
- Like fan-tan and tangrams
- Some takeout
- Something full of interesting characters?
- Language that's the source of the words answered by this puzzle's starred clues
- Like virtually all gold medalists in Olympic table tennis
- Popular takeout option
- Inventors of the compass and movable type
- Like gunpowder and the seismometer, by origin
- Group of tonal languages
- With 43-Across, historical period found in each set of circled letters
- American Born ___, prize-winning graphic novel by Gene Luen Yang
- Hailing from Hunan
- Most popular human (and Hunan) language group
- Cantonese or Mandarin
- Takeout cuisine choice
- Like the game mah-jongg
- Nepalese neighbors
- Takeout order
- Kind of wall
- Word before checkers or New Year
- Word before "checkers" or "zodiac"
- Group of languages that includes Hakka and Mandarin
- The talk of Taiwan
- Tianjin tongue
- About 18% of all people
