CROSSWORD

MIDDLE AGES

ACROSS

1 Old Glory et al.

6 Very good grade

11 Haw’s partner

14 Synagogue reading 15 “Nick of Time” singer Bonnie 16 Acne treatment brand

17 Brass or bronze

19 Took charge of

20 “SNL” routines

21 TV display type

23 Make 50-Across, say

26 Short albums, briefly

27 Attack on the Alamo, e.g.

28 Eat rapidly, slangily

30 Like many lotteries

33 Reduces the word count of

34 Haunted house sounds

35 “Many moons ___ . . .”

36 Feel sorry for

37 Discontinued Swedish autos

38 Trendy berry

39 First-rate

40 Policy experts

41 Uppercuts’ targets

42 “Cornflake Girl” singer

44 “Problem” singer Ariana

45 Alleged Soviet spy Hiss

46 Worker or drone

47 What Brits call “petrol”

48 Re-rent, in a way

50 Features of patchwork quilts

52 Putin’s org., once

53 Fuji or Rome Beauty

58 Odell’s dance partner in a 2018 Super Bowl ad

59 ___ Alert (abduction bulletin)

60 Busts, as a bronco

61 Zinger deliverer

62 Paper purchases

63 “And what follows,” in footnotes

DOWN

1 Consumer protection org.

2 London lavatory

3 Dadaist Jean

4 Breaks in continuity

5 Israeli coins

6 Spoiled kids

7 Best buds

8 Diminutive, to Al Capp

9 Idealistic reformers 10 Slender medical probes 11 Sport for some

3-year-olds 12 Blue book event 13 Mimicking bird 18 Like a soft persimmon

22 Scotch bottle datum

23 Don’t change anything

24 Physicist Fermi

25 Carroll character who was late

27 Random guesses

29 Comic Schumer

30 Hoses down

31 Kampala’s land

32 “Boom,” “crash” and “whoosh”

34 Stately abode

37 “We’ll get to it eventually”

38 “Got it!”

40 Engage in battle

41 Reduce to ash

43 Under the weather

44 Cyclist’s selection

46 “Cold ones”

48 Distort, as data 49 Jamaican citrus fruit

50 Place for a rose’s thorns

51 Went “ptui”

54 Sixth Man Award org.

55 Thatcher and May, for two (Abbr.)

56 “Die Another Day” director Tamahori

57 Lawyer’s title (Abbr.)