Crossword

ACROSS

1 Cathartic magnesium compound 11 Bygone Bulgarian bigwig 15 Some drag racers 16 Scott of “Arrested Development” 17 Comment denying kinship 18 Bob Ross painted with one 19 Dog follower, maybe 20 “Disturbia” singer, familiarly 21 Raise 22 “The Cocktail Party” monogram 23 Former Carson Daly employer 24 Horn for

Parker 26 Where to find Ruth and Aaron: Abbr. 27 West in old

movies 28 Small book

size 30 Words that contradict what preceded them 34 Perpetual

loser 35 Game time? 36 Hydrocodone,

e.g. 37 “Too Many Rappers” rapper 38 Holstein’s hi? 39 “Flags of Our Fathers” setting, for short 41 Vegas

summer hrs. 42 Windy City

train org. 45 “Baywatch”

actor 47 Superman’s

mom 49 Physics Nobelist the year after Einstein 50 “Count on

me!” 51 Came

clean 53 “Aww!” 54 Source of some long flows 55 Freezer aisle

brand 56 At risk

DOWN

1 __ Blofeld, Bond bad guy 2 Combines 3 Slope of loose stones 4 Passed 5 Sideshow __ of “The Simpsons” 6 Gave it another go 7 When Prospero says,“We are such stuff / As dreams are made on” 8 Hideaway 9 Dix moins sept 10 I-9 ID 11 Uphill aid 12 Sanctuary 13 Protection

from planes 14 Support 21 Does very well 23 Do the bare

minimum 25 Welk intro

words 27 Mediterranean country in which English is an official language 29 Final purpose,

to Aristotle 30 Factor in committee assignments 31 Houston’s __ Stadium, named for an energy company 32 Has too much, briefly 33 Run a tab, say 34 Coffee, in

diner slang 35 Hockey

advantage 40 From days

past 41 __ parade 42 Python pro 43 Bronze

ordinal 44 Like Taos, say 46 Folks 48 Key of Mozart’s clarinet concerto: Abbr. 49 Version to

debug 51 Sashimi

selection 52 Light knock