ACTING PRESIDENTIAL

ACROSS 1 Storage areas in stables

6 Take notice 11 Aromatherapy locale 14 Warren Buffett’s Nebraska hometown

15 Backspace over, perhaps 16 Brady with five Super Bowl rings 17 President Alan Richmond portrayer in “Absolute Power” 19 ___ Pizzeria and Grill

20 Platypus nest item

21 Takes steps

22 Introduces to the mix

23 Airline to Oslo

24 Monogram of early autodom

25 Coarse file

27 President James Marshall portrayer in “Air Force One”

32 BLT part

35 Highest Hawaiian peak

36 Plunderer’s take

37 Common baseball bat wood

39 Bibliophile’s advice

40 All worked up

42 Italian city known for its cheese

43 President Merkin Muffley portrayer in “Dr. Strangelove”

46 Tampa Bay squad

47 “Regrets, ___ had a few . . .”

48 8-Down, e.g.

51 Smack hard

53 Victim in Genesis

54 We all do this

55 Rapid blinking, e.g.

56 President Jackson Evans portrayer in “The Contender”

60 “Fire away”

61 Words of empathy

62 Jockey’s ride

63 “Agreed”

64 Go by car

65 Editors’ reversals DOWN 1 Theater or stadium areas 2 Alpha’s opposite 3 Vampire costume accessory

4 With 48-Down, seat of the Dutch parliament

5 Hot and arid 6 One of four in postwar Berlin 7 Gets under the skin of 8 Highlander’s topper

9 ___ Today

10 Pig’s digs 11 Game with hole cards

12 Home for koi 13 Roxie’s husband in “Chicago” 18 Taiwanese computer giant

22 To the extent that

25 Don Juan

26 “Bel Canto” novelist Patchett

27 High-pressure situation

28 Drive forward

29 Mule of song

30 Use a pipe cleaner on 31 Early word for a baby

32 Control tower image

33 Super-duper

34 Holders of checked garments

37 WMD part

38 Packed away

41 Take a shot at

42 Early tourney rounds

44 Activist of a sort, informally

45 Fairy tale’s penultimate word

48 See 4-Down

49 Player-owner intermediary 50 Common Core hurdles

51 Go nowhere

52 Smart-alecky

53 Early Michael Jackson hairdo

56 Stand-up comic Gaffigan 57 ___-friendly (“green”)

58 Budgetary excess

59 Bit of Morse code