CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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

50 Initialism for Tom Brady, according to most

52 2000s toon heroine __ Possible

53 Tiny

54 CIA predecessor 55 Finger Lakes

locale: Abbr.