DAILY CROSSWORD

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