CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 “Miracle on the Hudson” investigation gp.
5 Venom holder
8 Grads of Cornell’s Johnson Sch.
12 Kerfuffle
13 Quartet quarter?
14 Six-ton predator
15 Pride seekers’ lids
17 LeBlanc who played Joey on “Friends”
18 Texter’s approval
20 Cutesy answer to “How do you say that in Spanish?”
21 Uncoupled?
24 Zebras on a field
27 Classic muscle cars
29 Senator Ben who wrote “The Vanishing American Adult”
30 N.L. West team
31 Type of cable, briefly
32 Shade for a lifeguard
33 Defensive lines
35 Dries, in a way
36 Sometimes unattainable maxima
37 Sticky situation
38 2010 World Cup host: Abbr.
39 Origins
40 Bass part
41 It gives you the big picture
42 Title partner of “me” in a 1972 Billy Paul #1 hit
44 Blade in a shell
46 Metaphor for confidentiality popularized in a 1960s sitcom
51 Type of jacket
53 Shallot relative
54 Card in Clue
55 Ancient site of an iconic tree
56 Command posts
57 Is behind, maybe
58 Kid-__: tots’ TV fare
59 Sailing
DOWN
1 Legendary wildlife conservationist
2 Block in the kitchen
3 Humbles
4 Fodder for unfriendly trades
5 Speaker’s spot
6 Takes up, perhaps
7 Short bar order
8 High-waisted garb, stereotypically
9 Play with ideas
10 Do one’s part?
11 Couldn’t stand?
12 Prez who had no VP in his first term
13 Chinese pork dish word
16 Squares, e.g.
19 [Shrug]
22 Olympics chant
23 Ricoh camera brand
24 “To Kill a Mockingbird” theme
25 Heavy surf, e.g.
26 Obsolescent emergency exit
28 Coll. exam graders, at times
31 Charles of Watergate infamy
32 Skirt alternative
34 Some corny humor
35 Have something
37 Common jam ingredient?
40 Scotty’s “Star Trek: TNG” counterpart
41 Cara and Ryan
43 Much of Israel
45 Island reception
47 D.C. VIP
48 Ancient Memphis setting
49 Food __: after-eating drowsiness
50 3/8 of nineteen?
51 Questlove’s do
52 Dirty