CROSSWORD

WORLD LEADERS

ACROSS

1 Chinese statuary stone 5 Hairdos like Disco Stu’s

10 Scout uniform part 14 Showy perennial 15 Soup-eater’s impolite sound 16 Surface statistic 17 License plate frame pronoun 18 Worker with big cats 19 Slimming-down regimen

20 Tunnel-digging bug

21 Housefly’s sight organ

23 Family-friendly workplace perk

25 Salad with romaine lettuce

26 Betsy of flag fame

27 Oktoberfest vessel

29 Contest payoff

31 Morbid sort

32 Typical Nickelodeon fan

35 Not for the prudish

36 Hang like a Fu Manchu

37 Heart of the Inca empire

38 Have unsettled accounts

39 Lego unit

40 Made hound sounds

41 Tank on an exam

42 Reason to pack a bag

43 Like watches with hands

46 Held protectively

49 Miracle remedy

52 Rail splitter’s tool

53 Greedy child’s cr y

54 Collective bargaining side

55 Printer’s blue

56 State firmly

57 Fruit vendor’s structure

58 Pound with snowballs

59 Fodder for Colbert monologues

60 Hefty volumes

61 Creative pursuits DOWN 1 Anti-infidel struggle

2 Rock concert venue

3 Cajun side dish

4 Section of winding road 5 Wealthy couple on the Titanic 6 Bunsen burner output

7 Beef cut above the round

8 Snack Pack cookie 9 Neaten, as with new paint

10 Bum out

11 Celestial ram

12 “I gotta split!”

13 Hypercritical sort

21 Beer buy

22 Shingle securer

24 Warm and comfortable

27 Finger-inthe-socket consequence

28 Captured, in chess

29 MLB or NBA player

30 Cold and damp

31 The Joker’s facial expression

32 Vital team member

33 Boiling-mad feeling

34 Defective explosive

36 Narcs’ raid

37 Proved profitable

39 United voting group

40 Unmannerly

32-Across 41 Red-eye passengers

42 Faddists’ concerns

43 Jordan’s capital

44 Trusting to a fault

45 1973 resigner Spiro

46 Genetic duplicate

47 Praise to the heavens

48 Auto body blemishes

50 Suffix with “here,” in legalese 51 Hemsworth of “The Hunger Games”

55 IRS forms expert