Crossword
ACROSS
1 Test in which contrasts are helpful, briefly
4 __ stiff
10 Minor set-to
14 Huffington Post owner
15 Wedding offering
16 Defunct food coating
17 Domestic shamelessness?
20 Boundary
21 Legal tender with a torch
22 Dealer’s offering
23 __ voce
25 Body shop supply
26 Near giveaway at the liquor store?
30 2016 Billboard Top Artist
31 Besides Linus, the only Nobel laureate in two fields
32 Take badly?
35 Alluring
36 Postgame staple
37 Candy __
38 Feb. setting in Spokane
39 Artist at Giverny
40 Opposite of
56-Across
41 Fort Knox?
43 Philosophers’ group
46 “Cutthroat Kitchen” host Brown
47 Second name, perhaps
48 “Zounds!”
51 They’re often tough to beat
53 Result of way too many leaves in the eaves?
56 Opposite of
40-Across
57 Album contents
58 ENT’s group
59 Arcade trademark word
60 Part of many art museum names
61 Table support
DOWN
1 Ancient spell caster
2 Produce stand sites
3 “My turn”
4 Part of NSF: abbr.
5 Telling it like it is
6 Opposition leader?
7 First name in Chicago politics
8 It’s thrust in competition
9 Phone button letters
10 Without aggression
11 Zeus remains largely neutral during its narrative
12 “A dagger of the mind, a __ creation ...”: Macbeth
13 Potatoes may be cooked in one
18 Unloose
19 How stand-up comics usually work
24 Ring site
25 Salon sound
26 [I’m shocked!]
27 Enhance through change
28 Showed impatience, in a way
29 Poetry Muse
32 One moving with frequency?
33 Russian Orthodox church feature
34 City on the Aare
36 Kaiser, for one
37 Songs of Seville
39 Maine road sign image
40 Nothing
41 Buffalo Bill feature
42 Really loving
43 Generational tales
44 Barnyard sound
45 Request to a dealer
48 Verify the story of
49 Above the crossbar and between the uprights
50 Forced bet
52 Obstruction
54 Tach stat
55 SEAL’s org.