DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Bundles together, as wheat 7 EPA concern 10 Cab alternative 14 Field meeting 15 Choral extreme 17 Predestine 18 Countermeasure 19 Jesse Owens, e.g. 21 Advance 22 Part of NAFTA: Abbr. 23 Rats along the Rhine? 26 Rage 27 Where snowbirds flock in winter? 31 Feller’s tool? 34 Cheap smoke 35 Stick 36 Hamm from Alabama 38 Windows predecessor 39 Five-book collections 41 Serious betrayals 43 Henry VIII’s third 45 Kunal Nayyar’s role in “The Big Bang Theory” 46 Ultra-secret org. 47 River to the Seine 48 Winged figure of myth 50 Canine epithet 56 Monthly subtitled “The Magazine of Maine” 57 Portugal’s capital, locally 58 Having an accent 59 Speedily 60 Astronomical dist. 61 Slight opening? 62 End zone quartet
DOWN
1 Wave off 2 Fling 3 Result of pulling
the plug? 4 __ apple 5 Real estate investment strategy 6 Year-ending ceremony participants 7 Quatrain rhyme scheme 8 Airline with a kangaroo on its logo 9 Common canal site 10 Position near the top of some organizational structures 11 Spare tyre site 12 Kitchen finish? 13 “Pioneer Woman” cookbook writer Drummond 16 Voting bloc term used by Nixon and Trump 20 Backups’ backups 23 Bank nos. 24 Techie on “24” 25 Hirsute 28 __ Heath: Thomas Hardy setting 29 They have their pride 30 Championship ice dancer __ Virtue 32 So to speak 33 Verbal deftness 37 Rue stop? 40 Naval fortification 42 Winter cap feature 44 Piece maker 49 Twine fiber 50 Suffragist who co-founded Swarthmore 51 Off the mark 52 EPA issuances 53 Iberian river 54 Truth or consequences, e.g. 55 Aykroyd and Patrick 56 Broadband choice, briefly