THE DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 British cartoon whose logo features a curly tail
9 Company offering Viewliner Bedrooms
15 Cape Canaveral’s 321, for one
16 Period of devotion
17 Nearest the back 18 Private __
19 Tool akin to a staple gun
20 Shelter named for a senator
21 Bean sprout?
22 Printer color
24 Art student’s subj.
25 Orthodox leader?
26 Hedgehog relative
28 Clog buster
29 1993 Jack Lemmon comedy
32 Rentals used on rugs
35 Top 40 hit on the soundtrack for “A Charlie Brown Christmas”
37 Studio bed
40 Stock reducers
41 “My __”: Usher/ Alicia Keys duet
42 Tofu nutrient
43 Darlings
44 Bobby of R&B’S Famous Flames
45 They swell with pride
47 Tick by
49 Do some warehouse work
50 Nick name in Paris?
52 Venetian marketplace
53 One MCU character
54 Frostbite preventer
55 Stood firm
DOWN
1 Occasion to say 3-Down
2 Literary devices
3 “See ya”
4 Arctic hunter’s wear*
5 Culmination
6 Barely passable
7 Docs with DOBS, often
8 Appreciate
9 Actor Mount who plays Captain Pike in recent “Star Trek” series
10 Name on some magnums
11 Remote possibility?
12 Cone holder
13 Arctic hunter’s wear
14 Summer Olympics debut of 2021
20 Reasons for grievances
22 Sources of saffron
23 Chews out
26 Tenerife’s country
27 Mass performance
28 Fires off
30 Summer salad morsel
31 Locks in a barn?
33 Fortified red wine
34 Filmmaker who helped launch the African Film Heritage Project
36 Was in peak form, vocally?
37 Sculpture, often
38 Muse on the U.S. Naval Observatory’s seal
39 A little buggy, perhaps
43 Before going under, say
44 Curses
46 Hound of whodunits
47 Judgment of Paris instigator
48 “The Periodic Table” author Primo
50 Brita alternative
51 Navigator’s dir.