CROSSWORD
CUTTING OFF THE ENDS
ACROSS
1 Jam-packed 6 Braying beasts 11 ___ Poke (caramel sucker brand) 14 Ham-handed 15 Blue Grotto locale 16 Surfacing stuff 17 Wild pig in a news story? (P, D cut from a common phrase) 19 Chemical used in making 51-Across 20 “You fell for it!” 21 Election winners 22 “Family Guy” wife 23 Hold sway 24 Number of stoves in a store’s inventor y? (O, Y cut) 27 Filled up on 28 MBA, e.g. 29 Well-versed 30 Big Pharma product 31 Middle East’s Gulf of ___ 33 Baja bread 34 Circuits run around an Atlanta university? (M, E cut) 37 Alternatives to Surfaces 40 Solomonic sort 41 Prez on a dime 44 Williams with the 1984 No. 1 hit “Let’s Hear It for the Boy” 47 Make one 48 Gun, at the starting line 49 What’s seen when a tattoo parlor catches fire? (P, O cut) 51 Cleansing cake 52 Word before a discount price 53 One of the documentarian Burns brothers 54 Meeting handout 56 ___ kwon do 57 Salesman’s mild spiel? (F, N cut) 59 Acct. earnings 60 Yeshiva reading 61 Assaulted the nostrils 62 Euro divs. 63 Caused by 64 Grappler’s repertoire
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1 You’re filling one in now 2 Getting there 3 In a pique 4 Nutmeg, e.g. 5 Engrave on glass, say 6 Top starting pitcher 7 Polio vaccine pioneer Albert 8 Parasitic sort 9 Tip of a No. 2 10 Anthony Hopkins title 11 Home of the Blues 12 Lambaste 13 The Furies pursued him 18 Cit y west of Corpus Christi 22 Valuable deposits 25 Word after New or golden 26 Like the hands of an alms-seeker 28 Movie maiden “in distress” 32 Gov. Cuomo’s domain 34 Uplift spiritually 35 North ___ (White House area) 36 Feature of a May-December romance 37 More than dumb 38 October baseball prize 39 Short socks 41 ___ lobe (brain part) 42 Maze feature 43 Lots of campers? 45 Len of “Sweeney Todd” 46 One seeking asylum 50 Apple software replaced by Messages 51 Brief fracas 55 Major cut 57 Bygone Ford model 58 Albeit, briefly