Today's crossword
ACROSS
1 Destroy
7 Editor of “The Hugo Winners” anthology series 13 Bee sting treatment, perhaps 14 Ricotta-stuffed
pastry
15 Big game places 16 Decor style associated with hobo bags
17 Soft drink size 18 Cousin of org 19 Tropical fruit tree 20 Home of Warhol’s “Campbell’s Soup Cans,” briefly 21 “Hot House” Grammy-winning pianist
23 Driver of a converted bus, maybe
24 Eastern honorific 25 Mercury’s had
wings 27 Floundering
sounds
28 Code of concern
to users
31 Gothic fiction
outgrowth 33 Beverage rebranded to include “Zero Sugar” in its name in 2020 35 President whose nickname originated in childhood 38 Open-bodied
truck
39 Barbecue
flavoring
41 Beer flavoring 43 Whitewater
principal 44 Catnap
45 En este momento 47 “Who am __
judge?”
48 Pie not served for
dessert
49 Java serving 51 Winter airs 52 Obsolescent club usually replaced by a fairway wood 53 Member of a
noted octet 54 Serviceman? 55 Break
DOWN
1 Kingdoms
2 Valid independent
of experience 3 Former Asian communist coalition
4 Sleep woe 5 Paraphernalia 6 Northern
frontiers? 7 “Finally I can
relax!”
8 Neck, in
Newcastle 9 Provoke 10 Northwestern
Arizona county 11 “Last Week Tonight” host John
12 Parish priests 14 “Bring it on,
dude!”
16 Locale with special regard for customs? 18 Implicit meaning 21 Library array 22 Done 25 Characterbuilding aid?
26 Bookmarked, in
effect 29 “Dracula” (1931) director Browning 30 Carry the day 32 Multicountry union using the same currency 34 Daily newspaper
entertainment 35 Friday
revelation?
36 Islands bigwig 37 Romeo or Juliet,
marriage-wise 40 Rhinos and
hippos
42 Nice crowd 44 1933 physics
Nobelist Paul 46 Curly hairdo 48 Lose color 50 Hamm of “Mad
Men”
51 EMT proficiency