CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Support that’s

often rigged

5 Role,

metaphorically

8 Pair sharing a <3 necklace, probably

12 Instruments in some Gershwin works

15 “I don’t mind __ / Except as meals. / And the way they feels”: Nash

16 Tabula rasa

18 Joie de vivre

19 Susan who wrote, “The writer’s first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth”

20 Sources of

fleeting joy?

22 “Wrong hand,

silly”

26 Active front?

27 Postulant

28 Grace period?

31 “Toodles!”

33 Tree on the

Lebanese flag

34 Latin law

35 Place to get high and pass out?

37 Rx writers, often

38 Device that requires spin control

40 Inoculation

fluids 41 Literary alter

ego

42 Self-consoling

sigh

44 Animal in Aboriginal cave paintings

46 Line on a handwriting test

50 One of two tarot card groups

51 Went viral

53 State whose road signs feature 8-Downs

54 Academic term

57 Nice parent

58 Dessert with a

high point

59 Son of Hera

60 GRE org.

61 Like a fly ball to the warning track

DOWN

1 Safari runners

2 Heterogenous union

3 One working with a dictator

4 Perfectly

5 Lacks options

6 Rose up on stage

7 Leaves in a pot

8 Symbol of 53-Across

9 Was awash in euphoria

10 Study aid 11 Three-part fig.

13 Bag

14 Eyelid issue

17 Make dough or bread

21 Earthenware vessel

23 Bags

24 Breeding grounds

25 Clipped

28 Wiped out

29 One having a cow? 30 Not well-done

in the least

32 Derived from

gold

35 Brandon __: Hilary Swank’s “Boys Don’t Cry” role

36 Tiny tech powering Iron Man and Black Panther’s suits

39 Tours of duty

41 Sweet 43 Fox holes

45 “Mine! Mine! Mine!” criers in “Finding Nemo”

47 Small pouches

48 Poetic

contraction

49 Polished

52 Get set

53 Actress

Thurman

55 Rowing

implement?

56 Many times o’er