CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 British cartoon whose logo features a curly tail

9 Company offering Viewliner Bedrooms

15 Cape Canaveral’s 321, for one

16 Period of devotion

17 Nearest the back

18 Private __

19 Tool akin to a staple gun

20 Shelter named for a senator

21 Bean sprout?

22 Printer color

24 Art student’s subj.

25 Orthodox leader?

26 Hedgehog relative

28 Clog buster

29 1993 Jack Lemmon comedy

32 Rentals used on rugs

35 Top 40 hit on the soundtrack for “A Charlie Brown Christmas”

37 Studio bed

40 Stock reducers

41 “My __”: Usher/ Alicia Keys duet 42 Tofu nutrient

43 Darlings

44 Bobby of R&B’s

Famous Flames

45 They swell with

pride

47 Tick by

49 Do some warehouse work

50 Nick name in

Paris?

52 Venetian

marketplace

53 One MCU

character

54 Frostbite

preventer

55 Stood firm

DOWN

1 Occasion to say 3-Down

2 Literary devices

3 “See ya”

4 Arctic hunter’s wear

5 Culmination

6 Barely passable

7 Docs with DOBs, often

8 Appreciate

9 Actor Mount who plays Captain Pike in recent “Star Trek” series

10 Name on some magnums

11 Remote possibility?

12 Cone holder

13 Arctic hunter’s wear 14 Summer Olympics debut of 2021

20 Reasons for grievances

22 Sources of saffron

23 Chews out

26 Tenerife’s country

27 Mass performance

28 Fires off

30 Summer salad morsel 31 Locks in a

barn?

33 Fortified red

wine

34 Filmmaker who helped launch the African Film Heritage Project

36 Was in peak

form, vocally?

37 Sculpture,

often

38 Muse on the

U.S. Naval

Observatory’s seal

39 A little buggy, perhaps

43 Before going under, say

44 Curses

46 Hound of whodunits

47 Judgment of Paris instigator

48 “The Periodic Table” author Primo

50 Brita alternative

51 Navigator’s dir.