DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Terrible reviews

5 Dots in the Seine 9 Shoelace tip 14 Baseball’s Hershiser

15 Pie à la __

16 Singer Lopez 17 Old enough to start kindergarten 19 Divided Southeast Asian island

20 Sing to romantically 21 Roll the dice 22 Academic URL ending

23 Attend a foreign university, say

25 Way to get off base?

26 Wind quintet wind

27 Native

Alaskan

30 Ability to float 34 Spill the beans 35 Done to __: perfectly cooked 37 Numbered book part

38 Sonic, in gaming

40 Old photo tone 41 Dept. with a sun on its seal 42 Carbon monoxide’s lack

44 Kind of exam with brief responses 48 Scratch the surface of 51 Attached, as a corsage

52 Go up, as prices

54 Beelike

55 Exam answered in a blue book ... and a phonetic hint to 17-, 23and 44-Across 56 Pontificate

57 Fab Four fellow 58 Assert as true 59 Three-card con 60 Heidi’s range 61 Jared of

“Panic Room”

DOWN

1 Rapper’s entourage 2 Rainbow-shaped 3 ’60s jacket style 4 Gin flavor 5 Behind-schedule comment

6 Amass, with “on”

7 Barely defeated 8 Observe

9 “Way to go, fella!”

10 Scary scythe bearer

11 Dance under a bar 12 __ Gay: WWII bomber

13 Out of gas

18 Initial stage 21 West African country

24 Part of BYO 25 Inexorable force 27 Blond shade

28 Fish story, so to speak

29 Call off

30 Software glitch 31 Day break? 32 Cinematic FX 33 Vote for

35 Leading in the race

36 In tatters 39 Diplomatic accord

40 “My bad!”

42 Says “My bad!” 43 Car window stickers 44 Involuntary jerk 45 Safari heavyweight 46 Gibson garnish 47 Rope fiber 48 “Circle of Friends” author Binchy

49 Balance sheet item

50 Back in style

53 And others: Abbr. 55 Org. concerned with PCBs