Crossword

ACROSS

1 *Top selection 9 Bring pleasure (to)

15 Horror film line that usually gets its speaker in trouble 16 With conviction 17 Final Yahtzee roll, e.g.

18 Defies 19 Omaha-to-Milwaukee dir. 20 Epidermal

flaw

21 Its practice doesn’t make it perfect 22 *Preliminary

sketch 28 Cowboy

leggings 30 Quite small 31 __ culpa 32 Indian

noblewoman 33 Utopia 35 Degrees of creativity, briefly 36 *Overly defensive stance 39 Track

calculation 40 Very long time 41 Support for a

stroller 42 Seminarian’s

subj.

43 __ bran 44 Stun gun

brand 45 *Newbie 49 Kareem, once 50 Interoffice PC

connection 51 Vehicle that

really moves? 54 Canal zone 57 “Lives of the Mayfair Witches” trilogy author 60 Video game

figure 61 Agonize

about

62 Deal with a bounced email 63 *Stud poker

element

DOWN

1 Roofing unit 2 Vigorous

spirit

3 “Got

anything __?” 4 Mil.

three-striper 5 High on the

Scoville scale 6 Rodeos, e.g. 7 Equip anew

8 Back nine opener 9 Wealthy 10 “Ecce homo” speaker 11 Hunt stealthily 12 Source of lean red meat 13 PC key

14 Fleur in heraldry 22 Assigns relative value to 23 Mayberry kid 24 2018 Pro Football

Hall of Fame inductee Terrell

25 “It’s just a

scratch” 26 Not as

messy 27 “Nothing

to it!” 28 Less refined 29 Deal with 33 Put on quite

an act 34 Cubs’ digs 35 Heck of a

party 36 Swedish

tennis great 37 Astern 38 Amazon berry 43 Kind of band 44 Mine feature 46 Please

mightily

47 Be at

loggerheads 48 Cost 51 Brawny rival 52 Big name in

PCs 53 Bookish sort 54 What a sequence of single strokes from the start of each starred answer to the next often adds up to 55 Thoroughfare:

Abbr.

56 “Life Is Good”

rapper 58 Farm girl 59 Dungeons &

Dragons bird