CROSSWORDS

ACROSS

1 Support that’s often rigged

5 Role, metaphorically

8 Pair sharing a

<3 necklace, probably 12 Instruments in some Gershwin works

15 “I don’t mind __ / Except as meals.

/ And the way they feels”: Nash

16 Tabula rasa

18 Joie de vivre

19 Susan who wrote, “The writer’s first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth” 20 Sources of fleeting joy? 22 “Wrong hand, silly” 26 Active front?

27 Postulant

28 Grace period? 31 “Toodles!”

33 Tree on the Lebanese flag 34 Latin law

35 Place to get high and pass out?

37 Rx writers, often

38 Device that requires spin control 40 Inoculation fluids 41 Literary alter ego 42 Self-consoling sigh 44 Animal in Aboriginal cave paintings 46 Line on a handwriting test

50 One of two tarot card groups

51 Went viral

53 State whose road signs feature 8-Downs

54 Academic term

57 Nice parent

58 Dessert with a high point 59 Son of Hera

60 GRE org.

61 Like a fly ball to the warning track

DOWN

1 Safari runners 2 Heterogenous union 3 One working with a dictator

4 Perfectly

5 Lacks options

6 Rose up on stage 7 Leaves in a pot 8 Symbol of 53-Across

9 Was awash in euphoria 10 Study aid 11 Three-part fig.

13 Bag

14 Eyelid issue

17 Make dough or bread 21 Earthenware vessel 23 Bags

24 Breeding grounds 25 Clipped

28 Wiped out

29 One having a cow? 30 Not well-done in the least

32 Derived from gold 35 Brandon __: Hilary Swank’s “Boys Don’t Cry” role 36 Tiny tech powering Iron

Man and Black

Panther’s suits 39 Tours of duty 41 Sweet 43 Fox holes 45 “Mine!Mine!

Mine!” criers in “Finding Nemo” 47 Small pouches 48 Poetic contraction 49 Polished

52 Get set

53 Actress Thurman 55 Rowing implement? 56 Many times o’er