Edited by Rich Norris and Joyce Nichols

ACROSS 1 Asset for Sherlock 6 Fast 11 Additional

information? 14 Important period 15 Eat into 16 What makes a

deal ideal? 17 Elaborate

costume parties 19 Pickle 20 “Zip it!” 21 Prosperity 22 “Blah, blah,

blah,” for short 24 Golden __ 25 “I used to be Snow White, but I __”: Mae West 26 Part of the pelvis 29 In essence 30 “Bor-r-ring” 31 LPGA great

Lopez 32 Green shade 35 Rare blood type,

briefly 36 Shakespearean

barmaid 37 Picky details 38 “But __ got high hopes ... “: song lyric 39 Neutral tone 40 Prefix with

-gram 41 Like angel food

cake 43 Curry favor with,

with “to” 44 Ill-mannered 46 Veers suddenly 47 Distance

runners 48 First name in

folk 49 How it’s always

done, initially 52 Heat meas. 53 Places for seeing

stars? 56 CSA soldier 57 Green shade 58 Fragrances 59 Pack animal 60 Snooped

(around) 61 “Check” DOWN 1 NASA vehicles 2 Fish with

vermilion fins 3 “Jeepers!” 4 “Ugh!” 5 Enjoy Orbit 6 Masonryreinforcing rod 7 Inland Asian sea 8 D.C. player 9 Set-for-life set 10 Lot 11 What can help you avoid getting stuck changing diapers? 12 Form a coalition 13 Personalized collection of love songs, say 18 Consider 23 Toronto

Argonauts’ org. 24 “... bug in __” 25 Hustle or

shuffle 26 Former Mideast

ruler 27 Tops 28 Groups with a piece-keeping strategy? 29 Like many a stray

dog 31 Bay sound 33 Incredulous dying

words 34 “Hurry!” letters 36 Tried to make it

on one’s own 37 Storied loch 39 New Orleans’ __

Street 40 Crude smelting

product 42 “Once upon a midnight dreary” poet 43 Two-checker

piece 44 Eclipse shadow 45 Times in ads 46 Daydreamed,

with “out” 48 Nonsense talk, whose circled letter is the start of what might be done with items in the four longest puzzle answers 49 Stuffed shirt 50 Brutish one 51 “You there!” 54 Ones following

the nus? 55 Court promise