Crossword
When March’s American Crossword Puzzle Tournament was postponed on account of the coronavirus pandemic, two crossword enthusiasts, Kevin Der and Finn Vigeland, quickly set up an online event to take its place. Nearly 2,000 people took part from home. This is the final puzzle. The tournament’s other puzzles remain available online (look for “Crossword Tournament From Your Couch”) at no cost.
ACROSS
1 Word with cake or shop 7 Ones with something to prove? 15 “Baba ___” (“CSI: NY” theme) 16 Greek
17 Time release? 18 Shot in the back 19 Pichelsteiner, pozole and pot-au-feu
20 It can show you the way 21 Rush 22 Nickname for Eric Cartwright on “Bonanza” 23 Starbucks 12-ouncers
25 Go a few rounds 26 Material in doblones
27 Speaker of the words “Ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil,” in Genesis 29 Wanders around LAX or JFK? 30 Deterrent to squatting 33 Rather impressionable? 34 Sam who won at the Battle of San Jacinto 38 Metaphorical source of the next generation of coders and researchers 40 Hoedown lass 43 Played from the tipoff, say 44 Largest labor union in the U.S.: Abbr.
45 The Miners of Conference USA, informally 47 “The ___ the theft, the sweeter the honey”: Edmund Clarence Stedman 48 Company originally called Zimride
49 With 6-Down, acute power of discernment 51 ___ Palmas, capital of Gran Canaria 52 Back at the track 53 Coming after 55 “Cut it out!” 56 Big 12 college town 57 Flourishes 58 Like 4x4 sudoku, typically
59 City in Fitzgerald’s “Tender Is the Night”
DOWN
1 Series of crimes? 2 Stravinsky’s “Oedipus Rex,” for one 3 Sends in a huff 4 Moves from the head to the mouth
5 Fish in the order Anguilliformes 6 See 49-Across 7 Home to Blofeld’s lair in “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” 8 Classic chairs with shieldshaped backs
9 Part of REO 10 Part of REO 11 Avoids a service break? 12 Hanging on every word 13 Sporty Mazdas 14 Cornea neighbor 20 Pac-Man and the ghosts, in Pac-Man cereal 23 Collections dating back to the Han dynasty
24 Nosy Parker 27 Hot rods?
28 Set straight
31 “___ all a blur” 32 Broadband letters 35 Any student at Acme Looniversity 36 Self-serving comment? 37 What ataxophobes crave 39 Extricate with leverage 40 Name shared by the composers Holst and Mahler 41 In
42 Certain tourist, slangily autumn 46 Far text from crisp, as 48 Clunker car 50 Barre bend 52 Weapon on a cord 54 Mauna ___
55 Home of “The Monkees” on 1960s TV