CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Arctic Winter Games gear 10 Follows a cookbook direction 15 Apparent 16 Red River city 17 Nomadic 18 Pertaining to 19 Nucor and POSCO, industry-wise 20 Steak __ 22 Fragrant shrubs 24 Stretches out 25 Try 27 Con game 28 Longtime foe of Rafael 31 Apparent 34 Commotion 35 Rap sheet entry, perhaps 36 Jar head? 37 Available employment 40 Songwriter Green 42 New Brunswick neighbor 43 Propellant in ion thrusters 45 Patellar and Achilles 47 Hired help 51 Popular blend of seasoning 52 Small 1-Down 53 Ulyanov’s alias 54 Unyielding 57 Player selection process 58 Browbeats 59 Long-eared critters 60 Party decorations

DOWN

1 Quake 2 Like some dressers 3 Flexible wood 4 1998 Country Music Hall of Fame inductee 5 Finer than fine 6 Fools (around) 7 Baja bear 8 Poetic contraction 9 Roman numeral 10 Penn’s business school 11 Moves quickly 12 Childish 13 Unfortunate one 14 Many retired Kentucky Derby winners 21 Forestry workers 23 Flier that delivers? 26 County in four Northeast states 28 Indian filmmaker Kapoor 29 Devices used on trips 30 Freak out 32 Lugs 33 Old Tokyo 35 Air Canada Centre, e.g. 38 __ crisis 39 Consecrates, in a way 40 Bullfight 41 “Did Hamlet so __ with his envy ... ”: Shakespeare 44 Aggravate 45 Alternative nickname to Mattie, perhaps 46 Hardly humble sorts 48 Knock over 49 Observant one 50 Barrette target 55 “__ I digress” 56 Type of camera, briefly