DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 MTV toon
teen
7 Sings the
blues 14 Planned city in California’s Orange
County 15 Conquered 17 General
courses 18 “Could be
worse”
19 __ talks
20 Ones in a
mess, briefly 21 Celestial body 22 Chug-__ 23 Persuaded 25 Instrument dating to the Paleolithic age
27 “Go ahead” 29 One determin
ing 17-Across 30 Wikipedia is an
example of it 32 Like most capi
tal costs
33 Kind of response to mortal danger 39 Brody who was the youngest Best Actor Oscar winner 40 Contingency
plan 43 Double-check 44 Old Italian
capital
45 “__ oui!” 46 Provoke
47 San Francisco’s
__ Valley 48 Presages 49 Symbolic
attitude? 52 Star close to
Venus?
53 Field of
dreams? 54 Pucker
inducing 55 Denies
56 Parks with
games
DOWN
1 Digital image
format
2 Jazz virtuoso
Garner 3 Street in Manhattan’s Alphabet City 4 Salad bar
item
5 __ 500
6 His, to Henri 7 Reunion
discovery 8 Bypass
9 Last team to play in the Polo Grounds 10 Sounds from
the stumped 11 Base fig. 12 Bulgur salad 13 Spruce (up) 16 Swedish
tennis great 23 Like some
patches 24 Harder to
explain 25 Precede 26 Inc. kin 28 Blackened from combustion 29 Exfoliation
material 31 NFL Titan,
once
33 Pasta pellets in Jewish cuisine 34 Thoughtful
guy? 35 Breakfast bar 36 Sought
anonymity 37 “Just play
along, OK?” 38 Exploit 41 “Burnt” crayon
color
42 Prose pieces 44 More than a little foolish
47 BCS org.
48 It’s often
tapped out 50 North Sea
feeder
51 They, in
Tours 52 Radical ’70s
org.