CROSSWORD
TOM-TOM
ACROSS
1 Totally unskilled in 6 Farmland yield 10 Places for rubdowns 14 ILX and RLX auto make 15 Party with pupu platters 16 Air conditioning system component 17 Clumps of a punk rocker’s hair? 19 Volcano near Taormina 20 Filming venue 21 Feature of a frog, but not a tadpole 22 Top that bares the shoulders 24 Flirt’s signal 25 When life begins, it’s said 26 Exiting dreamland 29 Movie or restaurant critic 32 Put up with 33 Gave in 34 Paul Bunyan’s feller 35 Participate in a primary 36 Suitless card 37 Gambling or smoking, for some 38 Time of anticipation 39 Steinway servicer 40 Posts for some security guards 41 Stated clearly 43 Pain in the neck 44 4 x 100-meter race, e.g. 45 Knock senseless 46 Word in an arithmetic statement 48 “You are ___” (X’s meaning, maybe) 49 Eastern “way” 52 Archaeologist’s find 53 Attribute of an umpire who’s quick to eject players? 56 Gain altitude 57 Tiny amount 58 Off-limits 59 Burned up the highway 60 COLA part 61 Use an Artgum or Pink Pearl
DOWN
1 “Paper or plastic?” items 2 Ranch land measure 3 Dueling pianos song, e.g. 4 “___ you for real?” 5 Bikini wearer’s mark 6 Sword-on-sword sound 7 Ladder part 8 Tree symbolizing might 9 Easily influenced sort 10 Slender, like many models 11 Trivial downtimes? 12 Rice who writes of vampires 13 The sun, for one 18 Undecided, as a jury 23 In need of irrigation 24 Like lasagna noodles 25 Flu symptom 26 Signaled “goodbye” 27 Preceding, on a page 28 Raptorial bird’s Caribbean vacation? 29 Freed of leaves 30 Stand out from the crowd 31 Pee Wee in Cooperstown 33 ___ Island (hot dog-eating championship locale) 36 Period in the Age of Dinosaurs 37 Ming Dynasty artifact 39 Starbucks size 40 Word in some newspaper names 42 Showed partiality 43 Lorenz who wrote songs with Richard Rodgers 45 Trim, as a steak 46 Botches it 47 Remark from Groucho 48 Chart-topping tunes 49 Oktoberfest band instrument 50 Tori who sang “Cornflake Girl” 51 Woodwind quartet member 54 Seek the hand of 55 Guffaw syllable