DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 British cartoon whose logo features a curly tail 9 Company offering Viewliner Bedrooms
15 Cape Canaveral’s
321, for one 16 Period of devotion 17 Nearest the back 18 Private __
19 Tool akin to a
staple gun 20 Shelter named for
a senator
21 Bean sprout? 22 Printer color
24 Art student’s subj. 25 Orthodox leader? 26 Hedgehog relative 28 Clog buster
29 1993 Jack Lemmon
comedy
32 Rentals used on
rugs
35 Top 40 hit on the soundtrack for “A Charlie Brown Christmas” 37 Studio bed 40 Stock reducers 41 “My __”: Usher/
Alicia Keys duet 42 Tofu nutrient 43 Darlings
44 Bobby of R&B’s
Famous Flames 45 They swell with
pride
47 Tick by
49 Do some
warehouse work 50 Nick name in Paris? 52 Venetian
marketplace 53 One MCU
character 54 Frostbite preventer 55 Stood firm
DOWN
1 Occasion to say 3-Down
2 Literary devices 3 “See ya”
4 Arctic hunter’s wear 5 Culmination 6 Barely passable 7 Docs with DOBs, often
8 Appreciate
9 Actor Mount who plays Captain Pike in recent “Star Trek” series 10 Name on some magnums 11 Remote possibility? 12 Cone holder 13 Arctic hunter’s wear
14 Summer Olympics debut of 2021 20 Reasons for
grievances 22 Sources of saffron 23 Chews out 26 Tenerife’s country 27 Mass performance 28 Fires off 30 Summer salad
morsel
31 Locks in a barn? 33 Fortified red wine 34 Filmmaker who helped launch the African Film Heritage Project 36 Was in peak form,
vocally? 37 Sculpture, often 38 Muse on the U.S. Naval Observatory’s seal 39 A little buggy,
perhaps
43 Before going under,
say
44 Curses
46 Hound of
whodunits 47 Judgment of Paris
instigator
48 “The Periodic Table” author Primo
50 Brita alternative 51 Navigator’s dir.