CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Short shots?

5 Toque wearer

9 Tenth of a grand 14 “Quickly!”

15 Quasimodo’s

creator

16 Conifer with

durable wood

17 Bishop in bed? 20 Mid-’70s cost to mail a typical letter

21 Wears down

22 Veracious

23 Enliven

24 “I happen to have a deck of cards right here”?

28 “__ Rose Has Its

Thorn”: Poison hit 29 Bashes

30 “So there!”

33 Focusing aid

34 “Under the Redwoods” author

36 Valley

37 “Good Behavior”

broadcaster

38 High spot on a

farm

39 Radio station,

e.g.

40 Fake lawyer?

43 Nooks

46 Get behind, with

“for”

47 Immature insects 48 Indicates

52 Software service provided by hardware sellers ... and a hint to three long puzzle answers

54 Lacks

55 Bad thing to take

in a ring 56 Rim

57 Beasts of

burden

58 Gravity-propelled

toy

59 Seven __

DOWN

1 Historian’s field 2 Archipelago piece

3 Normandy city 4 Ghosts

5 Calisthenic exercise

6 Fox pursuer

7 What some poachers poach 8 Metrosexual

9 Priests, e.g.

10 Biblical dancer 11 Milan-based fashion house 12 Work for a

chamber group 13 What we have

here

18 Matthew who led a 19th-century expedition to Japan

19 Alter, in a way,

as a file

23 “__ lot of good

that’ll do you”

24 Bombard

25 Roasting site

26 Canterbury’s

county

27 Mistake

30 Word with cash

or candy

31 Away from the

wind

32 German title

34 Staff expanders 35 Multinational

range

36 Sets for some

43-Across

38 Learned experts 39 Company name inspired by a volcano

40 Like oxen

41 Gradually

develop

42 Labored

43 Highest-ranking 44 “__ Theme”: “Doctor Zhivago” melody

45 Salad green

48 Gardening aid 49 Aspect

50 Roman robe

51 Small tip

components

53 NFL stat