Crossword

ACROSS

1 “Dawn of the Dead” (1978) director 7 Street, in

Stuttgart 14 *Billboard entry 16 “S’pose so” 17 First of a film series about Damien Thorn 18 Cultural

environments 19 Marines NCO 20 *Upright instrument in a bluegrass band 22 Head of

Hollywood 24 Switchback

feature 25 Bordeaux wine 28 Hankering 30 Mauna __ 33 19-Across boss 34 Conniption 35 “Oh, crud!” 36 *Place to land when there’s no land in sight 40 Span. miss 41 “U R 2 funny!” 42 Goosebumpinducing 43 Neptune’s

realm 44 Hot state 45 Irritating

inconvenience 46 Post-Manhattan

Project org. 47 Selling points? 49 *LensCrafters

products 53 Grouch 57 “Let’s talk in my

office” 58 Word in many

hymns 60 “Inka Dinka Doo”

singer 61 Hollywood family name ... and what the answers to starred clues have in common 62 Son of

Clytemnestra 63 Campaign

ugliness

DOWN

1 Official accts. 2 Sounds of

amazement 3 Compressed

video file format 4 Abstruse

knowledge 5 Com can follow it 6 At all 7 “The Urbz: __ in the City”: video game 8 Long-odds bet 9 It’s often put on a

dog 10 Litmus reddeners 11 Short itinerary? 12 Motown music 13 First word of Massachusetts’ motto 15 Pest in a swarm 21 Lazy 23 Stag, for one 25 Elegance 26 French wine

valley 27 Main artery 29 It may be nervous 30 Hibernation spots 31 NBC newsman

Roger 32 Come to terms 35 Specification

regarding threads 37 Like many steakhouse menus 38 London bank? 39 Harvest 44 Give in 45 Unmannerly sorts, in Canadian slang xwordeditor@aol.com 46 Turkish honorifics 48 Window box plant 49 Opposite of exo50 Part of FYI 51 Raison d’__ 52 Witnesses 54 Latvian capital 55 Taiwan-based

computer giant 56 Gershwin heroine 59 Parsons of

“Hidden Figures”