Today’s crossword
ACROSS
1 Staging area 8 Oregon Trail sights
14 Part of a score 15 “No need to point”
16 Yuletide decorations at a beach cottage?
18 Michigan, e.g.
19 Some summer arrivals
20 Bit of baby talk
22 Quick cuts
24 Snowball fight defense
25 Sing the praises of
26 Furniture chain that also sells lingonberry preserves
27 Tolkien’s Legolas, for one
28 First name of the first woman to win a Nobel Prize
29 What many skyscrapers in Houston and Dallas represent?
33 Righteous Babe Records founder DiFranco
34 Darken in summer
35 Opera group sponsored by a ’70s-’80s sitcom family?
43 Drops off
44 U.K. part
45 Target ball in a pool game
46 “The Martian” novelist Weir
47 Young newts
49 Momoa who
plays Aquaman
50 DVR button
51 Give off
52 Mountain cat
53 Denim’s golden age?
58 Codeine, e.g.
59 How a leaf blower operates
60 Gets a gander at
61 Put together
DOWN
1 Film buff’s network 2 “That’s sorta
funny”
3 Like a flashback
time
4 World atlas
spread
5 Walrus features 6 Art Deco icon 7 __ sleep
8 More prudent 9 Cravat cousin 10 Most 1990s
Prizms
11 Above, to a bard 12 River between two Great Lakes
13 First U.S. city to host the Olympic Games
17 Flying
21 Lines from an
admirer 22 Idiosyncrasy 23 Classic studio
letters 24 Distinctive style 25 Remiss 27 Fish-eating bird 28 Fix 30 Stumblebums 31 Jackets named for a British school 32 Distinctive flavor 35 Mystery woman 36 Market aisle
border areas 37 “Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt” co-creator 38 Row 39 Completely
disorganized 40 In relation to 41 “Is that __?” 42 Six-yr.-term pol 43 “1917” subject 47 Overact
48 High pipes 49 Child played by
Meryl
51 Actor Morales 52 Anticipated
dance
54 Shrill bark
55 A, in Oaxaca 56 Tahiti, to
Gauguin 57 Qantas hub, in
itineraries