“CALLING NEW YORK”

ACROSS

1 Boring ones’ needs? 5 Ballroom dance

10 Shooter’s marble

13 Caterwaul

14 Scouts’ unit

15 “... parting is ___ sweet sorrow” 16 Incentive to buy, perhaps 19 “That’s a laugh!”

20 Goliath, for one

21 Cheap spreads

22 Inflames with passion

24 Fruit of the oak tree

25 Wilder ending?

26 Encourage

28 Motel furnishings

30 Kind of button or attack 31 Walker on a beat

34 In single file

38 Word on a dipstick

39 “___ you ashamed?” 40 Charter, as a plane 41 Swashbucklers’ skirmishes 42 Aussie gem

44 Dust unit

46 Defraud

49 Spine-tingling 50 Start of a phone conversation 52 Third book of the Bible (Abbr.) 53 Piston mover, sometimes 56 Hatchling’s home

57 Lacking required skills 58 Sharing a family tree

59 It may follow you? 60 Conquers

61 Transmitted

DOWN

1 “___ way ...” (incidentally)

2 Hawkeye

3 Ambidextrous

4 Cunning

5 Story spanners

6 Fabrics with pictorial designs 7 Freshly cut, as a lawn

8 Word with “life” or “gravy”

9 Busy IRS month

10 Piano specialist

11 Respond to, as an opportunity 12 Children’s most common questions 15 Place for a makeover

17 They can be inflated

18 Art style

23 Clifflike, flat-topped elevation 24 Opposed, to Li’l Abner

26 Takes home, as salary

27 Insect pest

28 Long, fluffy scarf

29 “30” to an editor

30 Banana feature

31 Young at heart

32 “___ the land of the free ...”

33 “Fix” or “game” beginning 35 Water flow controller

36 Kirk’s voyage

37 “Better you ___ me!” 41 “Clockwork” believer

42 Little birds with big peepers 43 Meson that helps hold the nucleus

together

44 “Les Miz” is set in one 45 Commonplace writing

46 Visited dreamland

47 Former Russian leader

48 Word after “main” or “blessed” 49 Sicilian volcano

50 Improve, as acting skills

51 ___ out (barely gets)

54 Skeleton part

55 Driver’s need