Quick 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 light-years 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-turned-actor