Today's crossword
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.