Crossword

Across

1 Worthless mounds

9 Bay Area campus, in brief

13 Reliable source of income

15 Impossible chess ending with a king and knight versus a lone king

16 Slimy outdoor pest

18 “Save yourself!,” e.g.

19 Didn’t get takeout

20 At the apex of

22 “___ Misérables”

23 Unwind

24 Item in the lingerie department 27 Not allowing sales of alcohol

28 Aquamarine or amethyst

29 Had as a customer

30 Determined to accomplish

32 Away from the office, say

33 Classic 1976 Ramones song that begins “Hey! Ho! Let’s go!”

37 Wade noisily

38 French girlfriends

39 Liane ___, longtime NPR host

41 “Moreover …”

42 Inexperienced

45 Diamond-patterned footwear 48 ___-tiller

49 “I’ve seen better”

50 Campus V.I.P.

51 U.S. base in Cuba, informally

52 Kick (out)

54 Improvised 57 Tempt

58 Safely run down the clock, in football

59 Mediterranean

volcano

60 Road-scraping custom car

Down

1 Home of the Norse gods

2 Granite ___ (New Hampshire resident)

3 Religious unorthodoxy

4 Lost all patience

5 Old Testament paradise

6 “The Fountainhead” author Rand

7 Comfy

sleepwear

8 Kind of renewable energy

9 Baseball boobird’s target, often

10 Hailed from afar

11 Hardy work shoe feature

12 Enjoy heartily, as a banquet

14 Keister

17 “There ___ the neighborhood” 21 Like antlers and pitchforks

24 Jazzman Stan

25 Wild way to run

26 Amorphous shapes

28 Entreaty to Lassie

30 Actress S pacek

31 Second Amendment advocacy grp. 33 Announce

loudly

34 University of Texas athlete

35 Apple desktop

36 Text-displaying technology on Kindles

37 Walk with an awkward gait

40 Wolfe of crime

fiction

42 Roly-poly

43 Withdrawal charge

44 Low-frequency stereo component

46 Velvety

47 Butcher’s scraps

48 Lake of daytime TV

51 Flippers, scuba tank, etc., for a diver

53 Nonalcoholic brew

55 Boxing decision, for short

56 Take an ax to