PUZZLES

HUMDRUM

ACROSS

1 Offers as an afterthought 5 Like rooftop panels 10 Thin out, as a herd 14 Made a rip in 15 “Me, Myself & ___” (Carrey movie) 16 Stage honor since

1956

17 Banded cameo stone 18 Wall-mounted TV feature

20 Fall bloomer, familiarly 21 Railroad crossing word 22 Bramble bush features 23 Increase the grade of 25 “If that’s true . . .” 26 Surrounded by

27 1951 movie about Nero

31 Pine exudation

33 Card game with melds

34 Get benefit from

35 Touch, as along a border

36 Sarcastic “Sorry!”

37 It’s entered in court

38 Budget or Dollar offering

39 Waste time

40 Members of

20-beast teams 41 Optimum height on a grocery shelf

43 Farm drudge of yore

44 Kingsley who wrote “Jake’s Thing”

45 Crossing the goal line, say

48 Wonder Woman, e.g.

51 Become less hostile 52 Hide-hair link 53 Auger or gimlet 55 Fish in northern lakes

56 Piggy bank deposit 57 Take unlawfully 58 Lebanon’s locale

59 Hosiery ruiner

60 Offers to auditioners

61 “Say again?”

DOWN

1 Particles in supercolliders 2 Snack for Homer Simpson

3 Bushel or peck

4 Questionnaire datum

5 Made finer, as flour

6 Wool substitute created by DuPont

7 Cyclist’s stunt

8 Insect in a colony

9 Retirement facility, for some

10 Dos Equis competitor

11 Its app has a fare estimate feature 12 Blot on a credit report 13 Camera bag item 19 Camaro maker, casually

21 Play with, as a dreidel

24 Give off, as radiation 25 Target of a surgical tuck 27 Suppress, as anxiety 28 Feature of matte paint

29 Reply to “Get it?”

30 Oilers’ milieux

31 Triple Crown segment

32 Site for bidders

33 Occupies the throne

36 Creating a nest egg, say

37 Cat’s utterance

39 Denizen of Hades

40 Cat’s utterance

42 Enjoying downtime

43 Resells after a sellout, perhaps

45 Word before list or loin

46 Finnish tech giant

47 Hall of Fame inductee

48 Pre-K recitation

49 Prominent item in werewolf movies

50 Solo that may elicit a “Brava!” 51 Promote a book or CD, perhaps

54 Boarding pass-checking org. 55 Friendly dog’s offering