FORMER LEADERS
ACROSS
1 “Baby ___” (Poehler/Fey movie) 5 Drag one’s feet 10 Sound of a dud 14 “Leave it to me” 15 Salsa singer Cruz 16 Flying-related 17 Move like a moth 18 High-tech exhibition region?
20 “More ___ than a barrel of monkeys!” 21 Composer Webern or Bruckner
22 Low-lying areas
23 ___:Apple:: Alexa:Amazon
25 Oil-rich Persian Gulf land
26 Seller of cinnamon, cloves and ginger? 31 Google’s messaging service
32 Hard thing to kick, perhaps
33 Winter bug
36 Comedian’s repertoire 37 “Sour grapes” fabulist
38 Chum, at a tackle shop
39 Number of Q’s in this diagram
40 Top-drawer
41 Snail’s trail
42 Bullet train crew?
44 Some surrealist works
46 Department store founder R.H. ___
47 Cirrus cloud shapes
48 Repair bill component 51 Metal in an Oscar statuette
54 Game show host living abroad now?
56 Ornamental green stone 57 Polygraph detections
58 Wood-shaping tool
59 Red Sox manager Cora
60 Comic with a prominent chin 61 Prisoners’ exercise areas
62 Tidied up
DOWN
1 Put into a huff
2 Rights-protecting org.
3 Where the top acts play, at festivals
4 “A Bug’s Life” bug
5 Like many postcard photos 6 Message with emojis, perhaps 7 “Come & Get It” dog food brand 8 Serengeti roarer 9 Brit’s bathroom 10 Wine taster’s asset 11 Guy, slangily 12 Less inhibited 13 Santa’s haul 19 Salt’s “Halt!”
21 ___ Sea (onetime Asian lake)
24 Colored part of the eye
25 Comedian’s comment
26 Kellogg’s waffle
27 Marvel’s Wolverine or Storm
28 “___ Finest Hour” (Churchill book)
29 Hurried pace
30 Slender woodwinds
33 Bedtime reading
34 Like a wet noodle 35 Versatile vehicles, for short
37 Where yodelers yodel
38 Like-minded voting group
40 Live and breathe
41 Stab-wound memento
42 Texas city on the Rio Grande
43 Enjoys a Havana
44 Civil War song
45 “Quaking” tree
47 In fine fettle
48 Scatter’s syllables
49 Not quite closed
50 Performers on a
3-Down
52 “I had no ___!”
53 On deck
55 Agent with a fake passport, perhaps
56 Inauguration Day mo.