Today’s crossword
ACROSS
1 Drains of energy 5 Pay with a credit
card
11 FDR’s successor 14 Gillette razor 15 Alabama’s crossstate rival 16 Par-three eagle 17 *Nutrition guide 19 Big coffee holder 20 Battery terminals 21 Chant for Real
Madrid
23 Send (to) for
treatment 24 *Comprehensive personal philosophy 27 Disney CEO
Robert 28 Cross-shaped
Greek letters 29 Yardstick unit 30 Grass farm roll 31 Truth
32 Small boat 34 *Horse breeder’s
concern 36 Covent Garden
productions 39 Driver’s oneeighties
40 Gave birth to 43 CBS legal drama
“The Good __” 44 Yardstick units 45 Novelist Caleb 46 *Figuratively, whence some unexpected ideas 49 Mint family herb 50 Corkscrew pasta 51 Rose
impressively 52 Big name in
ATMs
53 9:00 AM weekday event, typically ... and what the first word in the answers to starred clues can be
56 To this moment 57 Lacking nothing 58 Falco of “Nurse
Jackie”
59 Insured investments: Abbr.
60 Ready for more
action
61 Run the show
DOWN
1 African
adventures
2 In a single try 3 Checked for
errors
4 More glum
5 Little isles 6 “Ben-__”: Heston
epic
7 Org. with many
judges 8 Grapevine fodder 9 Barbecue 10 Came to a close 11 Semi activity 12 With 36-Down, nocturnal bird with a shrill cry 13 Down-for-thecount count 18 Part of mph 22 Like ewe, but
not me
24 City between Austin and Dallas
25 Best in an épée
match
26 Tot’s query 28 New Mexico art
colony
31 Home of the
SEC’s Gators 32 Nutrition regimen 33 Officeholders 34 One of hockey’s
Hulls 35 Stretched the
truth
36 See 12-Down 37 Poked a hole in 38 Concerted tries 40 Fall outing in a
wagon 41 Country south of
Georgia 42 Made deeper, as
a shipping lane 44 Deceptive fencing
moves
45 Coco of fashion 47 __ optic cable 48 Completely
absurd
49 Low digit
51 Went quickly 52 Home of MoMA 54 Hobbyist’s buy 55 Smelter input