“It’s Symbolic”—a trip around the keyboard.
ACROSS
1 Joan who sang “I Love Rock ‘n Roll”
5 Shaq’s former college team
8 “Family Guy” dog
13 Laguna contents
14 Street through the middle of town
15 Casual eatery, in Canadian slang
16 Underground illegal activity that may be busted by the Feds
18 Passing notices
19 “Butter” group
20 Alla ___ (cut time, in music)
21 Adorable pet
22 Some negatively persuasive strategies
24 Goes by
27 Some med. insurance groups
28 Time magazine co-founder Henry
29 Intuitive ability
30 Sports drink ender
33 Unrealistic comparisons for real-life couples (since problems don’t often get resolved in
30 minutes)
38 Obnoxious person
39 Willful participant?
40 Fit one within the other
41 “Bye Bye Bye” group ‘N ___
42 Former spelling of “Westworld” actress Newton’s name (she restored the W in 2021)
45 Turned up on the beach
49 Otherwise named
50 Moby-Dick, for one
51 URL ending, sometimes
54 Dwarves’ representative in the Fellowship of the Ring
55 Searchlight used in Gotham City
57 “___ Holmes” (Netflix movie)
58 Release, as energy
59 MC ___ (“Keep On, Keepin’ On” rapper)
60 Jorts material
61 ___ ipsa loquitur
62 Yoked animals
DOWN
1 Door frame component
2 Multi-award-winning accomplishment
3 Margarine containers
4 Paving material
5 Shaq’s former pro team
6 Pasta-draining device
7 Release from a leash
8 Food that comes in florets
9 Counterargues
10 Question about Biblical betrayal
11 High point of a house
12 They get counted or turned up
14 Jazz vocalist Carmen
17 Basics
22 Built to ___
23 AFL-CIO part
24 “Frozen” princess
25 “Sesame Street” human character for
25 years
26 Does something
29 To an advanced degree
30 Like some bourbons
31 Lucie Arnaz’s dad
32 90 degrees from norte
34 Strident agreement
35 Heal up
36 Optimistic “David Copperfield” character
37 2nd or 4th of VIII?
41 “Okay to proceed?”
42 “In other words ...”
43 “The Planets” composer Gustav
44 “Whose woods these ___ think ...”: Frost
45 Carried on, as a battle
46 Flaring dress style
47 Judge seated near Sofia
48 Ignominy
51 Stone used for chess sets
52 Give out some stars
53 Watkins ___, NY
56 Day-___ (fluorescent paint)