Crossword

ACROSS

1 *Adlai Stevenson as a presidential candidate, e.g. 7 Sleazeball 10 Fricassee, for example 14 Fix, as a boot 15 Singly 17 Remark from Don Rickles 18 It’s “knowing all the facts,” according to Woody Allen 19 Points along a bus route 20 Connection provider, for short 21 *Limits on team payrolls 22 Ragtime legend Blake 24 Airheaded 25 Listen (to) 28 How cigars should be kept, say aficionados 30 They praise in non-prose 31 **Doesn’t go to either extreme 33 Head lines, briefly? 36 Social gathering 37 Shame 38 “Perhaps ___” 39 Tomorrow’s jr. 41 Knight’s need 42 ___ Helmer of “A Doll’s House” 43 George I or V? 45 Blooming 47 *Snitch 49 Boxer’s concern, maybe 50 Tickle 51 Squid predator 52 Abductee of myth 56 Guarantee 58 1927 automotive debut 59 Dessert component often bought premade 60 *Individual telephone connections 61 Research org. 62 “Got that right!” 63 Mentally infirm

DOWN

1 Speaker in major-league baseball history 2 Came’s partner 3 Bone: It. 4 “Rugs” 5 Injured party’s warning 6 Crossed paths 7 Stand 8 Hypermeticulous 9 German article 10 Something involved in a firing 11 “You missed your chance” 12 Vacuum tube innovation of 1946 13 Beat 16 Operatic villains, often 20 Sleazeball 23 Makeup of many moon rocks 25 A whole bunch 26 Prefix with -logical 27 Quadrennial U.S. occurrence 28 Poker blunder 29 Michael of “The Great Santini” 32 Managed 34 “Saw” stuff 35 Castor or Pollux

40 Topping Scoville scale the 42 Was prying 44 Elaborate, with “out” 46 Punjab’s capital 47 Beats

48 Formula One racer Prost

49 Thinks but doesn’t know for a fact

51 First name in mysteries 53 ___ Strauss 54 Airline with a flag in its logo 55 Statistician Silver

57 Often-illegal maneuver that is key to answering the asterisked clues 58 British V.I.P.s