Crossword

Across

1 Array in ancient battles

7 Hot beverage 11 Bradford and Bradshaw, for two: Abbr. 14 What “It” is 16 New England state sch. 17 Something tested at an auto shop 18 Whose tears create the morning dew, in myth 19 Obliterate 20 Until 21 Multitude 22 Multitude 23 Presidential inits. 25 World’s second most populous landlocked country, after Ethiopia

28 Part of many a business name 29 Deli counter sign 32 Old union member: Abbr. 33 Text alert? 34 Time for remembrance 36 Freaking out, say 38 Scale notes 39 Debugging? 41 Comments like “Yer joshin’!” 44 Things applied to black eyes, traditionally 45 It doesn’t come full circle 46 Group in any circle in a Venn diagram

47 Cool, in slang 48 Twerp 51 Friend, in Firenze 53 Eponymous weapon designer

54 Plow puller 56 Feature of coastal Louisiana 57 1964 role for Honor Blackman 58 Wedded

59 “If you ask me …,” for short 60 How many letters are in the longest answers in this puzzle — or how many of these answers there are

Down

1 “Yentl” setting 2 Agatha Christie once described him as a “detestable, bombastic, tiresome little creature” 3 Something to

run

4 Symbol of

bloodlust

5 Star of TV’s “The Untouchables”

6 Foreign title:

Abbr.

7 Go hand to

hand? 8 60-Across, to

34-Across, e.g.

9 Explains

10 WWII hero

11 Pop icon, to members of her “hive” 12 Expand

13 One of a pair of fraternal twins, maybe

15 Fail 21 Dances done in 2/4 time

24 The Mediterranean, to ancient Romans 26 1942-43 battle

site

27 Cost

30 Pass 31 Chicago’s ___

Center

32 Acting as a partition

34 Relief for xerosis 35 1/1,000 of a yen 36 Computer addresses, for short 37 Luddite’s opposite, of a sort 40 Dilapidated 41 Polymathic

Isaac

42 Words of support

43 Like home, on rare occasions 49 Opposite of dirty 50 Contingency phrase 52 What a marker may mark 53 Subj. of some conspiracy theories

54 Print quality meas. 55 Museum estimate, maybe