DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Hardly rah-rah 10 Peeved cries 15 Period that ended with the death of Marcus Aurelius 16 See 20-Down 17 Regimen 18 Former TBS comedy “__ Tribeca” 19 Longtime E Street Band member 21 Storage areas 25 Gives the cold shoulder, in slang 26 Like the weakest excuse

27 Jones of jazz 28 Certain tournaments 29 When body temperature is typically highest 34 Org. that runs some 28-Across 35 Bight, e.g. 36 Words before many words 37 Sci-fi superweapon 39 “The Lady of the Lake” author 40 Touched down 41 Rival of Kaspersky 42 Employment hot topic

46 With nothing owing 47 Public relations specialists

49 One who can’t pass the bar? 50 Savory North African poachedegg dish

55 Get ready to break 56 Dissuade from doing 57 Last-minute 58 Unjokingly

DOWN

1 Well put 2 Standard course number 3 Splitting tool 4 Singing syllable 5 Sex appeal 6 NFL great Smith who won “Dancing With the Stars” in 2006 7 Asian weight units 8 Fawlty Towers et al.

9 Useful remedy for getting stuck in snow 10 Unkind thing to turn 11 Championship awards 12 Combative, slangily 13 ’60s-’70s South Vietnamese president 14 Medical tube 20 Group of 16-Across 21 Storage area

22 Slip 23 Onassis’ first 24 French upper house

27 Key of Beethoven’s “Eroica” 29 Ristorante courses 30 Battery acronym 31 Binary, in a way 32 Bony prefix 33 One who pays attention 35 Faith with five pillars

38 Julie of “Airplane!” 39 Cut out 41 Pre-euro Finnish currency

42 First speaker in “Macbeth” 43 Marvel Comics’ original Enchantress 44 Reacts in wonder 45 Discharge

46 “A Guide to Confident Living” author

48 “Star Trek” villain 51 Catalaunian Plains combatant, 451 AD 52 Adaptable vehicle, for short

53 Ali had 37 54 Blackbeard’s backward