CROSSWORD
APPLE CORES
ACROSS
1 It’s no short story 5 Rush job initials 9 Neckwear with a morning suit, perhaps 14 Leave off the list 15 Alley Oop’s abode 16 Mushroom’s genesis 17 Star of the silver screen 19 No longer up for grabs 20 Say further 21 Source of donated blood 22 Exhaust pipe output 23 Sean of “Into the Wild” 24 Experimenter’s collection 25 Refuse to share, slangily 28 Motorcycle add-ons 32 Jesse of the 1936 Olympics 33 Jazzman’s jargon 34 Tongue covering 35 Forearm bone 36 Placed a duty on 37 Ingredient in minestrone 38 Contract part 39 Website statistics 40 Slip into 41 Slowly but surely 43 Singer in a cage 44 Prompts from offstage 45 Quiz show quizzer 46 Disney diamond miner 48 Experimenter’s procedure 49 “24-hour” ailment 52 Only single-syllable state name 53 Group for amateur actors 55 Oversized volume, often 56 Hummer or Beemer 57 Bundle in a barn 58 Divisions in 33-Down 59 Boot camp fare 60 Place for a freight train to unload
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1 Dagwood’s napping spot 2 Mixed in with 3 Adorn richly 4 Convenience that accepts EBT cards 5 JFK’s was Bostonian 6 Award ribbon material 7 Big name in direct cosmetics sales 8 For each, in grocery flyers 9 Sharp as a tack 10 Secondary email address, for many 11 Mixer with rum 12 Raw resources 13 Coffee break time, perhaps 18 Declares assuredly 22 Disappeared from the public eye 23 Shipping route opened in 1914 24 Seedy bars 25 Golden Gloves events 26 Nocturnal bird’s hatchling 27 Netflix category 28 Ruth’s homer count in 1927 29 Outlet from the left ventricle 30 Box cutter insert 31 Lacking pity 33 Places for yardbirds 36 Sticky-fingered sort 40 37-Across, e.g. 42 Illegal coercion 43 Universe, as an orderly system 45 Puts on a burner 46 Cupid.com objective 47 Executor’s concern 48 “Can’t argue with that” 49 Try to get airborne, maybe 50 Lollapalooza 51 App that’s a bane to cabbies 52 Apple at the cores of 17- and 53-Across and 10- and 23-Down 53 Flood control structure 54 Stephen Colbert’s network