DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 “Heck, yeah”
7 Area above an eave
13 Orange-colored snack puff
14 Game with blanks to fill
15 Says “I’ll say,” say
16 What might make some people single-minded?
17 A baseball era was named for them, briefly
18 Trig. calculation
19 Top seen by
churchgoers
20 Provocative
21 Punch list items
23 Sulk
24 Strands inside a cell?
25 Kind of shot or gift
27 Lincoln’s need
28 Lifesavers, often
31 Creating a disturbance
33 Be responsible for
35 Card game for two, usually 38 Route for shipping vessels
39 See 26-Down
41 Incessantly
43 Incline
44 Done some freestyle, say
45 Become less green, maybe
47 Mariner’s hdg.
48 Academy Awardwinning director who became an army major during World War II
49 Fruit brandy that translates to “water of life”
51 Rages
52 Place to put one’s dogs?
53 Software provider sharing a name with a Greek prophet
54 Liam of “Batman Begins”
55 Kids
DOWN
1 More than a little
nervous
2 “Why would you even consider that?!”
3 She played Phoebe’s mom on “Friends”
4 Like oboe music
5 Western natives
6 Camera named for a Greek goddess
7 It doesn’t last
8 Sums
9 Puts (on) hastily
10 Using as an example
11 Porto’s peninsula
12 They may be fixed
14 Protection against bleeding
16 Northeast paper with
26 Pulitzers
18 Serious lapse
21 Flowers known as golden buttons
22 Shaved-ice treat
25 Hold ’em holdings
26 Fruit associated with a fabled
39-Across
29 Natter
30 “Cheap Thrills” singer with Sean Paul
32 Warning on some forwarded emails, briefly
34 Mouth-puckering brew
35 “It’s go time!”
36 Move up in the world?
37 Public stature
40 Present times, briefly
42 Second tries
44 Capital near the Red Sea
46 Verne captain
48 Au pair’s concern
50 Wheels for a move
51 Zinger