Hartford Courant

CROSSWORD

- EDITED BY RICH NORRIS AND JOYCE NICHOLS LEWIS

Across

1 “I Love a Rainy Night” singer Eddie 8 Rattletrap

14 TV screenbott­om banner, perhaps

16 Bond girl Andress 17 Clapping game 18 Vitamin B3 19 Reliable omen 21 “Krazy” comics feline

22 Modify

25 Murky milieus 26 Handle carelessly, with “with” 27 Jamaica’s Ocho __

28 Rocky peaks 29 Coordinate­based calc. 30 French wine term

31 They can’t be prevented 34 What human flight was once thought to be

37 Secondary matters 38 Possess 39 “Yes, _ _!” 40 Not wing it 41 “_ _ giorno!” 42 Ship’s post that secures cables 44 Largest Italian automaker

45 Big name in health care

46 Big name in home security

47 Most curious 49 Best Actress winner for “The Queen” 51 Longtime Arctic transporta­tion methods 55 Crossed the lake, say 56 Threatens with bared teeth 57 Drives

58 Emulated

Gene Kelly performing “Singin’ in the Rain”

Down

1 Copy, as a CD 2 Santa _ _ 3 Diner order 4 Statistica­l distortion­s 5 Bring on

6 Natural eye cleaner 7 Test-drive

8 Keg stoppers

9 St. Patrick’s home 10 Quiet-mouse connector 11 Exhausted

12 _ _ Sports Bureau, statistics giant 13 Diatribes 15 Stereotypi­cal shipwreck sites 20 They’re usually not helpful hints 22 Foot part 23 Turkish coins 24 Magnet for rubberneck­ing 26 Skirt length

28 She was Lois on “Lois & Clark” 29 Clothing

31 Talking trucker 32 Many a “Buffy” character 33 Attach, as a patch

35 Tighten, in a way 36 “X-Men” actress Paquin

41 Addictive Asian nuts

42 Tale of a whitetail

3 Down in the dumps, say 44 Sponsors

45 2019 World Series runner-up 47 Intuit

48 Alike, in Avignon 50 Itinerary abbr. 52 Tough, elastic wood

53 West of the movies

54 Reg.

 ?? By Brian E. Paquin
Tribune Content Agency ?? 2/1/20
By Brian E. Paquin Tribune Content Agency 2/1/20

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