CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Possible cause of price cuts
5 Sensitivity
symptom
9 Bucks’ gp.
12 Overdo,
perhaps
14 Greeting or
parting word
15 Larter of
“Heroes”
16 One might be involved in a gag
19 Finish in a
winery
20 Gossamer
21 Talk with one’s
hands
22 Conductor
Klemperer
24 Again and again,
in verse
27 Composer of “furniture music”
29 Decisionmaking board with no members
33 Haydn oratorio,
with “The”
35 Bull elk, at times
36 Sauce named
for a city
38 Fancifies
39 Transaction involving the repurchase of securities recently unloaded
40 “... a __ sorrows
and acquainted with grief”: “Messiah”
41 Pound parts
42 Bobs and
weaves
43 Lean meat
source
45 Shows interest
... or a lack of it
47 __ Minor
50 Certain cookie
vendor’s reward
55 Symphonist’s
work
57 Semana
seventh
58 Pre-owned
59 Digs
60 Stock thriller
character
61 Queens, e.g.
62 Within: Pref.
DOWN
1 Slip 2 Broadway theatre dedicatee Alfred
3 Drives
4 Travelers’ aids,
briefly
5 Lays on, as
buttercream
6 Sneak, in a
way
7 Insert indicator
8 Plot device?
9 Org. in 2018’s
“First Man”
10 Like-minded
group
11 Like a screenedin porch, say
12 Car-washsponsoring org., maybe 13 Black numbers?
17 Prominent figure in the Reign of Terror
18 Loses, with “off”
23 Connected (with)
24 Certain razor namesake
25 2002 title role for Salma
26 Carpenter’s joint component
28 Openmouthed 30 Tale in which Hector and Achilles duel
31 __ shot
32 Horned zodiac
animal
34 Agile performer
35 Twice-baked
cookies
37 Astringent in red
wine
41 Like some bio
majors
44 Get to chuckle
46 Observed,
maybe 47 Some are
visual
48 Short cut?
49 Words from Dr.
Watson
51 Great American
Ball Park team
52 Effort
53 Command in
BASIC
54 Musician whose name is a number in reverse
56 Pitmaster’s
application