Today’s crossword
ACROSS
1 Technique providing percussion with a string note 9 Character in “The Iliad” but not “The Odyssey”? 14 Summer pickme-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 16th-century 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