DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Technique providing percussion with a string note 9 Character in “The Iliad” but not “The Odyssey”? 14 Summer pick-me-up

15 Use as a bed 16 Spicy Mexican food

17 Extract metal from

18 Surg. sites

19 Ivy near an Acela stop

20 Ado

21 Big rings

23 NBA writer Zach

25 Question of method

26 Durango, por ejemplo

28 Crudely built city?

31 Many of today’s pro athletes

34 Total area?

35 Result of an imagined draft

36 Gum with Ice and Fire varieties

37 Riverbed deposit

41 B.A. Baracus portrayer

42 Warning accompanying a link

45 Ideal spots

46 Doomed 16thcentury force

49 Criminal charges

51 Bon __

52 Pressly of “Mom”

53 Subdivision showcase

55 Jeanette’s “Macbeth” (1948) co-star

56 Lenses

57 Touch-and-go

58 Blessings

DOWN

1 Makes a point?

2 Unleashes on

3 Big letters in security services

4 Is far from a good sport

5 Perennial #1 NCAA football team since 2008

6 Even slightly

7 Fifth-cen. pope called “The Great”

8 Monkey’s do partner?

9 As well

10 Long way to go?

11 Look here!

12 Depressions

13 __ Jamison, one of two NBA players with 20,000+ points who’s not in the Hall of Fame

14 “From your mouth to God’s ears” 20 Rears

22 Feel bad about

24 Succeeded in

27 1992 Mamet drama

29 Three-time WNBA MVP

30 Synagogue text

32 Performs surgery on, in a way

33 Cambridgeshire cathedral city

34 Like a sure thing

35 Company founded in 1939 as Auto Avio Costruzioni

36 Key of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto

38 Submission to a radio station, briefly

39 Garden guardians

40 Will of “Blue Bloods”

43 Ice cream alternative, casually

44 Moved between banks, maybe

47 Berserk

48 Refuse

50 Amps (up)

53 Once-big storage unit that’s now quite small

54 Farm female