Crossword

ACROSS

1 Differences between colors

12 Duchamp contemporary 15 “Well, what do you know?!”

16 Accessory for Miss Piggy

17 Six-time Grammy winner who is half of the group Gnarls Barkley

18 Some buzzer followers, for short 19 End of a count? 20 Toil and trouble 21 MTV toon teen 23 Reebok rival 24 Most clipped 25 “Fiddler on the Roof” setting 28 Embarrassed

29 Net Establish ___ 30 31 Shorts go-with 32 Still vying 33 Bits of sweat 34 Offensive line

35 Natl. Library Card Sign-Up Month

36 Desktop accessories

37 Novelist Ephron 38 Course outline

40 Helen who helped establish the 46-Down

41 School copier, maybe

42 Minute Rice instruction

43 Like Mercury vis-à-vis Mars

44 Future reporter

45 Shepard of “Parenthood”

48 Darth Vader’s boyhood nickname

49 Type unprofessionally

52 Sleep study acronym

53 “Hallelujah!”

54 Change the locks?

55 “Brilliant!”

DOWN

1 Extensive 2 Reddit Q&A sessions, briefly 3 Circlers at airports 4 Oocyte, e.g.

5 Rest on, as chances 6 Register 7 Where Hercules slew the lion 8 Some Pontiacs 9 Night that “Friends” aired: Abbr. 10 Distant stars? 11 Led 12 Supercilious 13 Spit spot 14 Become legally certified 22 “My baby at my breast,” to Shakespeare’s Cleopatra 23 Boba ___, “Star Wars” bounty hunter 24 Sounds of failure 25 Leafy vegetable related to a beet 26 1974 Abba hit 27 Mazurka meter

28 Individually wrapped hotel amenities 30 Pelvis-patella connector

33 Member of the 1920s Murderers’ Row 34 Bout ender 36 Grounds for a 15-yard penalty

37 Tragic heroine of Irish legend

39 Muscle used in pull-ups, briefly

40 Sarah who hosted the podcast “Serial” 42 Support pieces 44 Saves or assists 45 Liter lead-in 46 See 40-Across 47 Classic Jaguars 50 D.O.D. division 51 ★✩✩✩, e.g.

PUZZLE BY JOHN GUZZETTA