CROSSWORD
SOLVING WITH EASE
ACROSS
1 Like apple-colored cheeks
5 Chat room monitors, briefly 9 Turn to liquid 13 Waiting for an assignment 14 Grub, to a beetle 15 Raise the hackles of 16 Place where some beards are grown? 18 Much more than minimally
19 Prado display
20 Rockies ski resort
21 Privileged ones
23 Tourist cit y on the Arno
24 Target of a brat’s kick
25 Magnetic element
28 “My Cousin Vinny” star
32 States boldly
33 Do road gigs
34 King’s Scholars school
35 Secured with stitches
36 Simpleton’s lack
37 Grandstand denizens
38 Ontario border lake
39 Blade with a button tip
40 Deli pancake
41 Metal marbles
43 Most scantily dressed
44 XL or XXL
45 Deal with adversity
46 “No way!”
49 Dog collar danglers
50 Chili holder
53 Flat-pack furniture chain
54 Leap into a river of song? 57 Stadium seating level
58 “Hot dog!”
59 Roof’s top point
60 Doesn’t go on forever
61 2-Down detector
62 Reached for one’s toes
DOWN
1 Latvia’s capital
2 Sign of spoiled milk
3 Mattress supporter
4 “Despite that . . .”
5 Gangland group
6 Like pills, but not injections 7 Movie-downloading device, briefly 8 “Goes for me, too” 9 Cafeteria offerings for new hires? 10 Visible part of a sheathed sword 11 Skin softener ingredient 12 Shoots with a Super Soaker
14 Fewest possible
17 Demonic deeds
22 Sassy talk
23 Native Nebraskan notables?
24 W.C. Fields persona
25 Social workers’ assignments
26 In plain view
27 “Space Oddity” singer David
28 Craving, slangily
29 “Red” or “blue” election area
30 Bops on the bean
31 Atlas page feature
33 Dwelling with a door flap
36 Jumps at, as an opportunity
40 Memory glitch
42 Ad ___ (wing it)
43 Result of a three-putt, often
45 Pirogue, e.g.
46 Summon to court
47 Closely related
48 Basis for charitable donations
49 What treaters pick up
50 Smoke shop buy
51 Part of a kitchen range
52 “TTYL” or “OMG,” e.g. 55 Knock-knock joke pronoun
56 Apply with a tissue, say