DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 NASCAR stat 4 Afternoon entertainment staples 14 Asia’s __-Kum Desert 15 Certain junkie’s stimulus 16 Slaughter on the diamond
17 One sharing a pedigree 18 Frittata base 19 Inexperienced 20 Combined 22 Belgian or brown 23 Canonized pope known as “The Great”
24 Sea-__ 26 Longtime New Yorker cartoonist Roz 31 Starbucks selection
34 Pi, for a circle with a radius of one 35 Where the action in Chicago’s County General Hospital took place 36 Peripheral 37 “Phooey!” 38 Folklore fiend 39 Folklore trickster 41 Gets rid of 43 Recognizes
44 “The Red House Mystery” author 45 Delivery pros 47 “Truly!” 48 “Truly!” 54 Stadium ticket info 55 Some white research subjects 56 Freudian subjects 57 Cosmetic coating 58 Little pig, maybe 59 Great places to make contact 60 Match with chips
DOWN
1 Rhyming cocktail 2 Ones working on the links 3 Easy to use 4 Mexican toast 5 God played by Anthony Hopkins in “Thor” 6 Fine __
7 H.S. instructors who show you the ropes? 8 “Inside the NBA” analyst 9 About 3.26 lightyears 10 Muppet who refers to himself in the third person 11 “Knives Out” writer/director Johnson 12 Required wager
13 Tournament position 14 Doesn’t freak out 21 Fair-hiring letters 24 Hotel handout 25 Didn’t do nothing 27 Precursors 28 Group that suspended Syria in 2011 29 Permanent 30 Challenge often undertaken while blindfolded 32 Unruly group 33 Talk Like a Pirate Day syllable 40 “Te __”: Rihanna song 42 Emma Lazarus’ “The New Colossus,” e.g. 46 Godsends 47 Tips to one side 48 Olympic swimmers Crocker and Thorpe 49 Arcade game grabber
50 Irish Rose’s beau 51 Juba’s river 52 Long way to go? 53 Rapper-turnedactor