Today’s crossword
ACROSS
1 Apple product
11 Collector’s frame
14 Mozart’s Queen of the Night, for one
15 Cover on the road
16 Guacamole, e.g.
17 “Agreed!”
18 Tiny and unimportant
19 “The First __”
20 Must
21 Make a narrow escape?
22 In itself
23 Slips into
24 Rhapsody, perhaps
26 Field pair
28 Virtuoso
31 Tie with the dealer, in blackjack
32 La Liga cheer
34 Like Dorothy
Parker’s humor
35 Red state?
36 Any of Florida’s Dry Tortugas
38 Some “SVU” roles
39 Cut out
41 Model builders, at times
42 Bauhaus founder Gropius
44 Not peripheral
45 Chateau
Montelena’s home
46 Ban from practice
48 Spring break destination, briefly
52 Word of resignation
53 __ Eats
54 Rambled
55 Calamitous
56 Obviously full of anticipation
58 Art store supply
59 It may be pulled before a final
60 Thing in the
Roman Senate
61 Has a clear conscience, maybe
DOWN
1 Gobs
2 Oddly, trailers may precede one 3 Like many a
horror film victim
4 Low tide formation
5 A server may carry one
6 Gum, after use
7 Makes up
8 Elizabeth I was the last one
9 Really could use, with “for”
10 Unfortunate
11 Diner patron played by Stephen King in “Mr. Mercedes,” e.g.
12 “The Vagina Monologues” playwright
13 Takes interest, maybe
15 Bear that can bark
22 Call counterpart
25 Captain, at times
27 Dog topper 28 Sum up
29 Begin to set boundaries
30 First woman to lie in honor in the U.S. Capitol
31 Compost bin remnant 33 “Cloverfield”
characters 35 Highly energetic sort
37 What a city dweller may do on a building roof
40 Jellyfish
41 Pikelike fish
43 Burns with a light touch?
44 Oceanic 45 Point from which a recovery can begin
47 Animated Disney bibliophile
49 Indian novelist Desai
50 Slangy craving
51 Gritting one’s
teeth, maybe
54 Old dance hall tunes
57 __ pass