LAST REWRITES
ACROSS
1 Plantation units
6 Levine of Maroon 5
10 Sighed interjection
14 Puff up, as an ego
15 Facetious nickname for a big guy
16 ___ stick (classic toy) 17 Baked potato toppers, perhaps
19 Place to brown buns
20 Midriff muscles, briefly
21 Church tower sound
22 Comerica Park nine
24 Sound of a blender blade
25 Egg boiler’s aid
26 Dead on one’s feet
29 Lounge pianists may take them 32 Tree with fluttering leaves
33 Arrange a date for
34 Initials on a packed house
35 Like gruel
36 “The Divine Comedy” poet 37 Carb-rich vegetable, slangily
38 Female Leghorn
39 MLB draft decisions
40 Cowpoke’s rope
41 Smudges on test papers, perhaps
43 Quarter’s threesome
44 Jabs, from most boxers
45 2017 hurricane after Irma
46 Approve, as a law
48 Needing a rubdown, perhaps
49 Belittle, slangily
52 OPEC charter member
53 It’s not yet in history books
56 Peace offering that’s passed 57 Wearing road grays, say
58 Like the worm-catcher, in a saying
59 Cheeky talk
60 Top scores from a “Dancing With the Stars” judge 61 Incorporate, as the U.S. did Texas
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1 Pop group with a Stockholm museum
2 Alley Oop’s weapon
3 Goes to seed
4 Partake of a smorgasbord
5 Quipster Colbert
6 For face value
7 Start a phone call
8 Colonist in a hill
9 That certain something 10 Outermost orbital point 11 Couple’s clash 12 Word after New or golden
13 Word after “&,” in business names 18 Tara of “Sharknado”
23 “Stop shaking me!”
24 “___ in the course of human events . . .” 25 Messages often typed with thumbs
26 Enjoy a soak
27 Theater or church worker
28 Lumbar punctures
29 Curling venues
30 “Dare” alternative, in a party game
31 Teetotalers’ quaffs
33 Pair on a king or jack
36 Cagney impersonator’s phrase 37 Trigonometry function
39 Magic dragon of song
40 Drink brewed from petals
42 Cod fishermen’s gear
43 Daybreak, in verse
45 Babies in pouches
46 Tights mishaps
47 Oratorio highlight
48 Read, as a bar code
49 Mend with thread
50 Maroon’s home
51 River between Earth and Hades
54 Bleating source of milk 55 Deep-dish pizza holder