CROSSWORD PUZZLE

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