CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Wedding party escort 6 Witch’s

incantation 11 Image file suffix 14 Garden- guarding

spirit 15 Free- for- all 16 Poetic “before” 17 “Fingers crossed!” 19 Golf starting point 20 Cattle identifier 21 Puts dressing in,

as a turkey 23 Painter or

sculptor 24 American addition to Chinese cuisine 26 Face cover 27 Hawaii’s Mauna __ 28 Watch over 29 Shakespearean

rumpus 30 Sad on the Seine? 32 Migratory salmon 34 Vessel carrying

soldiers 36 Directs ( to), as a

specialist 39 Fibbed 40 __ moment:

revelation 43 Yemeni port 44 Bumped into 45 Hoity- toity sort 46 Steph Curry

hoops specialty 49 Draw idly 51 College grounds 52 Lighthearted

banter 53 See 53- Down 54 Earth- friendly retailer ... and a hint to the circled letters 57 Consumed 58 Stay away from 59 Offends the nose 60 “Spot on!” 61 Dots on a map 62 Doctrinal belief

DOWN

1 “This tastes awful!” 2 Smiled with

disdain 3 Fictional captain

Hornblower 4 “Bam!” chef 5 Takes ten 6 Air quality issue 7 __ talk: team

motivator 8 “Happy Endings”

actress Cuthbert 9 Largo relative 10 Assistance, with “a” 11 Propellant for a flying fighter 12 Roll call response 13 “Who knew?” 18 __ trick: hockey player’s three goals in a game 22 SLR setting 23 “Selma” director

DuVernay 24 Rhyming pair 25 NFL stats 27 Zodiac feline 30 “Turn on the

heat!” 31 __ Angeles 32 “... __ loves me

not” 33 Prefix with night 34 Local news hr. 35 Obedience school

command 36 Friend of TV’s Sheldon and Leonard 37 Provide schooling

for 38 Ewes and does 40 “Subsequently ... ” 41 Mount __: oldest Seven Sisters college 42 Civil War prez 44 Red Square city 45 “It’s pretty

obvious” 47 Nursery rhyme

dieter 48 Spanish omelet

ingredient 49 Joe Biden’s st. 50 Unconcealed 52 Certain TV

screens 53 With 53- Across, money transfer app 55 Yang’s

counterpart 56 Wash. winter

hours