Crossword

ACROSS

Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols Lewis

1 Veal __ 5 Seal 9 Actress Thompson of “Creed” 14 “Gotcha” 15 Posh “Peace!” 16 One remaining 17 Israeli foreign minister during the Six-Day War 18 It began in 2010 with the Tunisian Revolution 20 Legendary

Shawnee leader 22 __ Rico 23 Suffix suggesting

wiggle room 24 Uncertain

utterances 25 School squad

goal? 26 English __ 27 Greek walkways 29 Spy-fi employer 30 Boggy biomes 31 False pretenses 35 They win audiences over bit by bit 37 Denzel Washington’s directorial debut 39 Gigging group 41 Shakespearean

interjections 42 Company with “It’s

what you do” ads 43 Briefs brand 44 Woolf’s “__

Dalloway” 45 Pit stuff 47 44-Across, in

Andalusia 48 __ beef 50 Separated seed

from 52 Epic salvo of social media missives 54 What you might pass, but can’t fail, in school 55 Hair extension 56 Instrument often made of African blackwood 57 Spread on the

table 58 More bizarre 59 Watched

carefully 60 Iraq War

concerns, for short

DOWN

1 Old doctrinal Lutheran movement 2 Mineral involved

in much litigation 3 Nonprofit that won a 2007 UNESCO Confucius Prize for Literacy 4 List with sides 5 Illicit collection,

perhaps 6 Some bounders 7 Where I-15 and

I-80 meet 8 Where charges are entered at the bar 9 Refill 10 Tours to be? 11 First black U.S.

Congresswoman 12 Submitted 13 Specialized

idioms 19 Discuss 21 Forbidding

contraction 25 __-nez glasses 28 Vishy __, World Chess Champion before Carlsen

29 Crunch and

others? 30 Bichon __ 32 “Breakfast at

Tiffany’s” director 33 Lifts up 34 Expatriate 36 Hidden away 38 Bus meets, e.g. 39 “The Great British Bake Off” airer, initially 40 Declared xwordeditor@aol.com

44 One fed on the

street 45 Sharp pang 46 Fortified 49 Campbell of the “Scream” franchise 50 Belch in “Twelfth

Night” 51 Word with bank

or board 53 It may be

jammed

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