FIRST-RATE FINALES
ACROSS
1 Masseurs’ workplaces 5 Cinematic segment 10 Neatnik’s antithesis 14 Idiot-proof 15 Doctor’s clip-on device 16 Yankee Doodle’s ride 17 Newsman Chris on the rise?
20 Packets in caddies
21 Mayoral staffers
22 Middle name adopted by Lennon
23 Walk proudly
26 Bit of Java programming
29 Place to stroll or fish
30 War room feature
33 Vuitton of fashion
34 Stately home for pigs?
36 Picks, with “for”
37 Goes caroling, say
38 Heavy load to bear
39 Super-popular threat?
41 Angry bull’s sound
42 Undefined quantity
43 Word after finish or foul
44 Fabric named for an Indian cit y
45 E-cigarette output
46 In bygone days
47 Like Santa’s helpers
50 Ricer or parer
54 Flat part of a mallet?
58 How thumb-twiddling is done
59 Item in a school desk
60 Appliance with racks
61 Yardbird’s quarters
62 Hut or houseboat 63 Sees the point of
DOWN
1 Shia or Sunni
2 Showing terror, perhaps
3 Jordan’s locale
4 Use of white to represent purity, e.g.
5 Coffee urn attachment 6 Supermarket array 7 McMuffin ingredient 8 Direct from the factory 9 Presidential term, to historians
10 Treat with a banana
11 Dump truck capacity 12 Never before or since
13 NFL teams’ off-weeks 18 Causes of ruin 19 First lady before Michelle
23 Tracy of “Boys Town”
24 Hint of color
25 Workout tally, briefly
26 Lei-wearer’s “Welcome!”
27 Stop by briefly
28 Glazier’s goo
30 Lord’s 62-Across
31 Honda’s luxury line
32 Weevils, to cotton farmers
34 Instrument at a John or Joel concert
35 Raincoat brand
37 Clippers sound
40 Grazer on a veldt
41 More prudent
44 Past adolescence
45 Siding option
47 Story on a grand scale
48 Source of riches
49 At capacity
50 Like most garage sale goods 51 Clip coupons, say 52 Fin player on “Law & Order: SVU”
53 Shutterbug’s buy
55 Glass of public radio
56 Small protuberance
57 “Shine,” in brand names
Friday’s Answer