CROSSWORD
FRONT RANKS
ACROSS
1 Head-butting beasts
5 Union pariah 9 Sudden outpouring 14 Steak platter shape
15 Bear in two constellations 16 Dieter-friendly, for short
17 Prefix with bytes or bucks
18 Within walking distance, say 19 Doctorate students’ exams
20 Self-employed doctor’s business
23 Place for a snooze
24 Courtroom figures, briefly
25 “A Streetcar Named Desire” heroine
29 Reclue, as a crossword 31 Bouquet delivery co.
34 Banks nicknamed “Mr. Cub”
35 Bout ender, informally
36 “Summertime,” e.g.
37 Venture capital from Goldman Sachs, perhaps
40 iPhone image
41 Can’t live without
42 River to the Missouri
43 Squalid digs
44 Homages in verse
45 Bicycle wheel parts
46 ___ Beta Kappa
47 Attack moguls, perhaps
48 Event following the primaries 57 Word before rock or football
58 State firmly
59 Target of Garfield’s kicks
60 Jack’s fair y tale foe
61 Request from Old King Cole
62 MASH setup
63 Chips in a chip
64 “The Call of the Wild” vehicle
65 Big Apple retailer
DOWN
1 Easy win
2 State firmly
3 Nativity scene trio
4 Czech or Slovak
5 Beverage brewed outdoors 6 Michael B. Jordan boxing movie
7 “Without delay,” on a memo
8 Roseanne of a self-titled sitcom 9 Antarctic transport 10 Cruise termini 11 Berry touted as a superfood
12 Softest of minerals
13 Ultimatum ender
21 Better equipped
22 “Later, amigo”
25 Rigs in rest areas
26 Pamphleteer’s work
27 “Have fun!”
28 L. Frank Baum’s coward
29 Places for icicles
30 Like pink hair
31 Go ballistic, with “out”
32 Trace of color
33 Palm yield
35 Replaceable joint
36 Response to “Are not!”
38 “Slumdog Millionaire” country
39 Issue to debate
44 “Darn it!”
45 Distorted, as data
46 Rigatoni relative
47 Place to
47-Across
48 Totally infatuated
49 Andrews of “Dancing With the Stars”
50 In apple-pie order
51 Swimmers’ units
52 Rotten to the core
53 Au pairs’ charges
54 Inventor’s starting point
55 Sound from a
43-Across
56 Lacrosse targets Monday’s Answer