CROSSWORD

HERD MENTALITY

EDITED Fred Piscop BY Brendan Emmett Quigley ACROSS

1 Mario ___ (Nintendo series) 5 Place for spices 9 Glam rocker’s neckwear 12 Went like mad 13 Rosebushinfesting bug 15 Gentle touches 16 Lion’s sense of community?

18 At the acme of

19 Term paper theme

20 Keys in or jots down

22 Comics bark

25 EGOT winner Brooks

26 Ren ___ (role-playing festival)

27 ___ counter (radiation detector)

29 Pancake topping option

32 White-plumed wader

33 Ogre who loved Fiona

34 Singer Sumac

35 Central idea

36 Clean with elbow grease

37 Google Play downloads

38 Colonial bug

39 Blood or milk fluid

40 Cornrow or pigtail

41 Seder holiday

43 Shoelaces alternative

44 Lost deliberately

45 Waze display

46 Lead-in to “plunk” or “plop”

47 Lacking vegetation

49 Greek colony of Asia Minor 51 Lake named for a tribe

52 Oyster’s spa amenity?

57 Give for a while

58 (Gulp!)

59 Voracious marine mammal

60 Internet nuisance

61 “The man, the ___, the legend”

62 Better than fair

DOWN

1 The Colonel’s chain

2 Poetic pugilist

3 Gun, as an engine

4 Total doofus

5 Ice-T or Ice Cube

6 Boston Marathon month

7 In vogue

8 Joke around with 9 Wolf’s power source? 10 Double-reed instrument 11 Hieroglyphics snakes

14 Drain or desiccate

15 Vegan’s no-no

17 Orbiting ice ball

21 Game on a world map

22 May-December romance feature

23 Saskatchewan’s capital

24 Pony’s A-team?

26 Q&A assembly

28 Pick up on

29 D-Day division

30 One behind a catcher

31 Pulpit figure

33 Fastener that’s driven

36 Platinum anniversary year count

37 The whole shooting match

39 In need of liniment

40 Celebrity chef Jacques

42 Reduce to confetti

43 Go “poof”

45 Claude who painted haystacks

47 Round-ending sound

48 Neck of the woods

49 Like a printer’s apron, often

50 Really excited

53 Aspire to, with “for”

54 Frat guy

55 Prefix for the footprint-conscious

56 The old man Monday’s Answer