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 xwordeditor@aol.com 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.