Crossword

ACROSS

1 Picture with a surprise ending? 10 Cheaply,

with “for” 15 Land across the Baltic from Sweden

16 Organ __ 17 Burden to bear 18 Lead-in for here

or nowhere 19 Much data:

abbr.

20 River of Tuscany 21 Oliver Twist,

for one 22 Architectural

molding

23 Cut twice,

perhaps

24 Clear of snow 27 The King’s

middle name 28 McBride of

“Draft Day” 29 Metz meal

30 __ vote

31 Wi-Fi relative 32 Eisner’s successor at Disney

33 Org. formed in Manila in 1954 34 Pulitzer poet Van Duyn 35 With 22-Down, immortal 20th-century racer

36 British county 37 Spherical

bacteria 38 Racing Unsers 39 Make sound 40 Quenched 41 Downwind current 43 Improvisational style 44 Aspects 45 Sainted pope called “the Great” 46 Masterpiece 49 Heron relative 50 Product announced but never produced or canceled 52 Coeur d’__ 53 Crash and burn 54 Treat again, as leather 55 Relax

DOWN

1 Work on one’s vacation, say 2 Hawaii’s __ Bay 3 Places with indoor windows, briefly

4 Rap article 5 Storm problems

6 Kept out

7 Two __: fast-break advantage 8 Protein-rich paste 9 Humanities degs.

10 Like most grandparents 11 Stock options? 12 Facing a deadline

13 “In your dreams!” 14 Federal

subsidy

21 College town about 100 miles NE of Portland 22 See 35-Across 23 Hackneyed 24 1993 William Diehl thriller on which a 1996 film was based 25 Formidable court

figure 26 Nevada’s Area 51,

notably

27 Agatha or

Edgar

30 The Pont Neuf

spans it

33 Molts

34 Defense that

may be all wet 36 Gaga

37 “Does she ... or doesn’t she?” brand

40 Part of a fictional dog name inspired by Sinatra’s “Strangers in the Night” 42 R&B singer __

Marie

43 Dividing

walls

45 Café supply 46 León relative 47 Piccadilly Circus

statue

48 Hand raiser’s

attention-getter 50 Beta rival

51 Org. that complements the IMF