Crossword
ACROSS
1 Mirthful sounds 4 Largest galaxy in the Local Group 13 Stop 16 Strains at the balcony 17 “Birth of the Cool” trumpeter 18 Protesters, in ’60s slang 19 Talmud letters 21 Cheerleaders may raise it 22 Crashing and burning 24 Urban legends website 25 Lobby, often 27 Saturn SUV 28 Trail for a hound 29 Zaps 31 Ne’ertheless 34 With 35- and 36Across, secondlargest galaxy in the Local Group 35 See 34-Across 36 See 34-Across 37 Poetic twilight 38 Japanese box lunch 39 Elemental makeup 41 With 14-Down, “Iron Man” of sports 42 Is demanding 44 Friday revelation? 47 Had some impact 48 Treat with scorn 49 Something hit on a range 50 News dispatch lead-ins 53 Deli qty. 54 Test 55 Intensifying exclamation ending 56 By some calculations, projected fate of 4-Across and 34/35-/36-Across in three to four billion years 57 SOP part: Abbr.
DOWN
1 Sampled some 2 Serious downfall 3 Whitney Houston appeared on its cover in 1981 4 Critter in Egyptian art 5 Born identity intro 6 Wee nips 7 Carry on? 8 Weighty 9 Marvel Comics hybrid supervillain 10 Roman magistrate 11 Fakes on the ice 12 Pack animal 14 See 41-Across 15 Brando wore one in “Streetcar” 20 __-cone 23 Finally became a member 26 Valletta is its capital 30 Trifling amount 31 2008 Phoenix/Paltrow romantic drama 32 Brunch order 33 Precious gem source 35 Earworms, say 38 Rod-shaped bacteria 39 Minute Maid Park team 40 Sesame seed paste 41 “The Office” star 43 Rib 44 State with a 45-mile Canadian border 45 Calcium, e.g. 46 Former Finnish coin 50 XX x XXXV 51 Id controller 52 Sanders or Cruz: Abbr.