CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Technique providing percussion with a string note

9 Character in “The Iliad” but not “The Odyssey”? 14 Summer pick-meup

15 Use as a bed

16 Spicy Mexican

food

17 Extract metal from 18 Surg. sites

19 Ivy near an Acela

stop

20 Ado

21 Big rings

23 NBA writer Zach 25 Question of

method

26 Durango, por

ejemplo

28 Crudely built city?

31 Many of today’s pro athletes

34 Total area?

35 Result of an

imagined draft

36 Gum with Ice and

Fire varieties

37 Riverbed deposit 41 B. A. Baracus

portrayer

42 Warning accompanying a link

45 Ideal spots

46 Doomed 16th-century force

49 Criminal charges 51 Bon __

52 Pressly of “Mom” 53 Subdivision

showcase

55 Jeanette’s “Macbeth” (1948) co-star

56 Lenses

57 Touch-and-go

58 Blessings

DOWN

1 Makes a point? 2 Unleashes on 3 Big letters in

security services

4 Is far from a good

sport

5 Perennial #1 NCAA football team since 2008 6 Even slightly

7 Fifth-cen. pope

called “The Great” 8 Monkey’s do

partner?

9 As well

10 Long way to go?

11 Look here!

12 Depressions

13 __ Jamison, one of two NBA players with 20,000+ points who’s not in the Hall of Fame 14 “From your mouth to God’s ears”

20 Rears

22 Feel bad about

24 Succeeded in

27 1992 Mamet

drama

29 Three-time WNBA

MVP

30 Synagogue text 32 Performs surgery

on, in a way

33 Cambridgeshire

cathedral city

34 Like a sure thing 35 Company founded in 1939 as Auto Avio Costruzioni 36 Key of Beethoven’s Violin Concerto

38 Submission to a radio station, briefly

39 Garden guardians 40 Will of “Blue

Bloods”

43 Ice cream alternative, casually

44 Moved between

banks, maybe

47 Berserk

48 Refuse

50 Amps (up)

53 Once-big storage unit that’s now quite small

54 Farm female