Quick Crossword

Across

1 #1 Toto song that mentions

the Serengeti

7 Whittling, for one

12 Wavy patterns in some op

art

13 Cool one’s feet at streamside, say

14 Attempted coup participants 17 Stretching muscles

18 Iowa State city

20 Many an 18th-century

painter

24 Low-quality

26 CFO’s degree

27 Intelligence org.

28 Form close ties (with) 29 “Let’s have at it!”

32 Point

33 Circle segment

34 Palm fruit ... or what the creator of this puzzle’s theme apparently is?

35 __ dog

36 Classic Pontiac

37 Not moving

38 Desires

39 Bellows of “The Agency” 40 Dessert order

41 Flower holders 42 Environmentally concerned 47 Old Venetian judge 48 Catching a glimpse of 51 Source of an organic fiber 56 Most cunning

57 When Rome wasn’t built? 58 Weighty reading

59 Guiding principles

Down

1 Film lover’s TV option

2 Pay, as a bill

3 It may be fried or puffed 4 Piece of rebar, essentially 5 Suppress, in a way

6 Part of NAACP: Abbr. 7 Jaguar, e.g.

8 Genetic molecule

9 Actor’s rep.

10 Parade staple

11 Closed

13 Data storage medium 15 Country club employee 16 Stretches on a couch? 19 Some can be used forever-but only once

21 Signs

22 In the neighborhood of 23 Overblown critique 24 Elaborate entryways 25 Physician wearing a pink ribbon, perhaps

28 Like potato chips, often 29 Showed up

30 Farm measures

31 Curly slapper

34 Crime boss

38 “That’s well within my abilities”

41 How to receive a freebie,

perhaps

43 Yo-Yo strings?

44 Official doc.

45 Belief system

46 In the previously mentioned

work, briefly

49 Connection point (C) 2021 Tribune Media Services 50 Initialism for Tom Brady, according to most

52 2000s toon heroine __ Possible

53 Tiny

54 CIA predecessor

55 Finger Lakes locale: Abbr.