Crossword
ACROSS
1 Technique providing percussion with a string note 9 Character in “The Iliad” but not “The Odyssey”? 14 Summer pickme-up 15 Use as a bed 16 Spicy Mexican food 17 Extract metal from 18 Surg. sites 19 Ivy near an Acela stop 20 Ado
21 Big rings 23 NBA writer
Zach 25 Question of
method 26 Durango, por
ejemplo 28 Crudely built
city?
31 Many of today’s pro athletes 34 Total area? 35 Result of an imagined draft
36 Gum with Ice and Fire varieties 37 Riverbed deposit
41 B. A. Baracus portrayer 42 Warning accompanying a link
45 Ideal spots 46 Doomed 16th-century force 49 Criminal
charges
51 Bon __ 52 Pressly of
“Mom” 53 Subdivision
showcase 55 Jeanette’s “Macbeth” (1948) costar
56 Lenses 57 Touch-and-go 58 Blessings
DOWN
1 Makes a point? 2 Unleashes on 3 Big letters in security services
4 Is far from a good sport 5 Perennial #1 NCAA football team since 2008 6 Even slightly 7 Fifth-cen. pope called “The Great”
8 Monkey’s do partner?
9 As well 10 Long way to go? 11 Look here! 12 Depressions 13 __ Jamison, one of two NBA players with 20,000+ points who’s not in the Hall of Fame 14 “From your mouth to God’s ears” 20 Rears
22 Feel bad
about 24 Succeeded in 27 1992 Mamet
drama 29 Three-time
WNBA MVP 30 Synagogue
text 32 Performs surgery on, in a way 33 Cambridgeshire cathedral city 34 Like a sure
thing 35 Company founded in 1939 as Auto Avio Costruzioni 36 Key of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto 38 Submission to a radio station, briefly 39 Garden
guardians 40 Will of “Blue
Bloods” 43 Ice cream alternative, casually 44 Moved between banks, maybe 47 Berserk 48 Refuse 50 Amps (up) 53 Once-big storage unit that’s now quite small 54 Farm female