“These Go To Eleven” — and five down.
ACROSS
1. Toning result
12. Celebrity gossip website
15. 1993 Mary J. Blige hit that reached #5 on the R&B Singles Chart
16. Elvis’s longtime label
17. Bitter almond, as seen in French desserts
18. Acne wash maker
19. It’s posed for passersby
21. Radcliffe’s group
22. Dear one?
23. Violinist Menuhin
27. Throws out
30. Eldest von Trapp child in “The Sound of Music”
35. Pet Shop Boys’ longtime label
36. Locates
37. Comparable
39. Tomei of Spider-Man movies
40. Where Will Shortz is the “Puzzlemaster”
43. Dish with grapes, walnuts, and mayo
50. Bookstore category that features the town’s authors
53. Squishee purveyor on “The Simpsons”
54. Record the meeting, in a way
55. Blues guitarist Mahal
56. Place where it’s hard to pass
57. “Hold On Tight” group
58. Words before “of smell,” “of self,” and “of right and wrong”
DOWN
1. Cat scratch sources
2. Friends, ‘90s-style
3. Russian infant emperor of 174041 (too young to be the “terrible” one)
4. E-mail writer
5. ___ a positive note
6. Chain that merged with AMC Theatres
7. Boy’s name that means “God is my nation” in Hebrew (A MILE anag.)
8. “San ___ High School football rules!” (shouted line near the end of “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure”)
9. Pearl Jam bassist Jeff
10. Actors Reed and Meredith Baxter (when she took a husband’s surname)
11. Pilots
12. Apparel that gets “dropped,” facetiously
13. CI times XI
14. Former groupmate of Harry and Liam
20. Decoy vessel used as early as WWI
24. Actor Kier of “Dancer in the Dark”
25. Morse code component
26. Provisional terms
27. Old Prizm automaker
28. Australian coat of arms bird
29. Frank McCourt’s sequel to “Angela’s Ashes”
30. On the ___ (running)
31. Garten who had a 2022 moment responding to Reese Witherspoon
32. Canal zone?
33. Guardian Angel Curtis who was the Republican nominee for NYC mayor in 2021
34. Northern Silicon Valley city
38. “Highlights for Children” dogooder
40. Vacuum hater?
41. Igneous rock that solidifies deep in the earth (like a god of the underworld)
42. ___ hen’s teeth
44. Scottish builder of stone walls (not Dutch, surprisingly)
45. Work alongside “El rey Lear,” “La tempestad,” and “Ricardo III”
46. Furnish a new crew
47. “Breaking Bad” businessman/drug lord Gus
48. Neurobiologist Joshua who developed the “brainbow” by mapping neurons with different colored proteins (and whose name uses letters from “synapse”)
49. “___ un Principio: From the Beginning” (1999 Marc Anthony greatest-hits album)
50. In the wee hours
51. Birthstone that shares a first letter with its month
52. “... a Saint Bernard in his prime, five years old, nearly two hundred pounds in weight ...”