THE DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Some chocolate
purchases 12 Inflation fig. 15 Purveyor of fraudulent credentials
16 Bit of positivity? 17 Hair, in many
cases
18 Latin word in many academic mottos 19 Climber’s rest
stop
20 Poetic indicator of
relative time 21 Juice extractor 23 Pasture
palindrome 24 Wouldn’t share 26 Imperious
dismissal 28 Surfboard
damage 31 Shocked big-time 34 Official who sings
in Hebrew 36 Leverage
provider
37 Where to find “Octopus’s Garden” on “Abbey Road” 38 Utah Jazz center
Whiteside
39 Ran into trouble 40 Shakespearean
last gasp 41 Neologists 43 Zoom frustrations 45 __ rule
48 Love of
collectibles
50 “__ Kapital” 51 Succumbed to
stage fright 53 Brown or Rice
ending 54 ’90s-’00s HBO series with lots of therapy sessions 57 Comprehend 58 Impresario’s
contact
59 Hibachi waste 60 Election focuses
DOWN
1 Disorient
2 Power cord? 3 Club relative 4 First name in film
designers 5 Wander
6 “Eww! Say no
more!” 7 Redesigned 8 Popped up 9 Common starting
hr.
10 “I Am Jazz” cable
channel
11 Took a day to
consider, with “on” 12 Faulted to excess 13 __-chef
14 “Need You
Tonight” band 22 Dermatological
symptom
24 Yoga asset 25 Reels off 26 Premise in many John Grisham novels
27 Idris of “The
Jungle Book” 29 Actress Gaye of
“Ali”
30 Novelist Iles 31 Reason to call a
chiropractor 32 Nit, to a Brit 33 Like a situation in which emotional persuasion trumps factual accuracy * 35 Purim month 37 Voice used for “Humpty Dumpty,” say 39 Crime novelist
Carl
42 Yale sobriquet 44 Crosses at obedience school? 45 “Rouen Cathedral” painter
12/11/21 46 Thinning layer 47 Tops
48 Chevy named for
a star
49 When 40-Across was spoken 51 Alpha Phi Alpha,
e.g.
52 Sitar
sequence 55 Hem partner 56 NBA stat