Crossword

ACROSS

1 __ bar 6 Line used when

wrapping? 15 Singer whose three studio albums have numerical titles 16 Was bugged 17 Remove, as a

corsage 18 It has a climbing route called “The Nose” 19 Crude 21 Den denizens 22 Nice assent 23 League of Women Voters co-founder 24 Assists a chef 26 White House

advisory gp. 27 Six-pack group 28 Fighting chance 29 Comics shriek 31 The African

Queen, for one 35 Former first

daughter 37 Make a call 38 Conqueror of

Valencia in 1094 40 Brain in many an

Asimov story 43 British title 44 Part of a flute 45 Kvetching chorus 47 __ shooter 48 Buzzed 50 Pokémon that evolves to Kadabra 51 Org. concerned

with child support 52 Singer Vannelli 53 1995 AFI Life Achievement Award recipient 55 Spidey sense,

basically 58 Skateboard leap 59 Stopped taking

orders 60 Home of Armani

and Prada 61 News credential 62 Place on a

pedestal

DOWN

1 Scientific name involving a repeated word 2 To an annoying

degree 3 What Brad’s

Drink became 4 Settled down 5 Elder or Younger Roman writer 6 Modern-day

eruption 7 “The Planets”

composer 8 Story lines 9 It can be green,

red or yellow 10 Con’s mark 11 Hyphenated word in a Hawthorne title 12 Put the bite on 13 Many Scheherazade characters 14 XXX, perhaps 20 Big dogs 24 Little dog 25 Self-Operating Napkin creator Goldberg 28 Rides with wingshaped tailfins 30 Game including

golf and bowling 32 Taker of ppm

measurements 33 Barbershop

quartet style 34 Race against the

clock 36 Outdoor party

crashers 39 Buster? 41 “Bossypants”

memoirist 42 Fictional

governess 46 Rita Hayworth’s

title princess 48 Building

subcontractor 49 Just plain silly 50 Outstanding 52 Be a looky-loo 53 Genesis creator 54 “Disarming Iraq”

author Hans 56 Ceremonial

title? 57 Jazz genre