10/22/16
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1D
Unhand or disarm?
MAIM
2D
Oscar winner before “Grand Hotel”
CIMARRON
3D
1974 National Book Award winner by Thomas Pynchon
GRAVITY’S RAINBOW
4D
Daughter and half sister of Oedipus
ISMENE
5D
Shows a preference
LEANS
6D
Shared computer syst.
LAN
7D
One who goes on to try to conquer the Universe?
MISS USA
8D
Language akin to Yupik
INUIT
9D
ID
CARD
10D
End of a lap
KNEE
11D
They may reduce sentences, for short
EDS
12D
And how!
YOU’RE DARN TOOTIN’
13D
Four-time N.B.A. scoring champion in the 2010s
DURANT
14D
Vessel opener
STENT
20D
Still matter?
BOOZE
23D
Tough nut to crack
ENIGMA
24D
Court position
PLEA
25D
Prefix with village
ECO-
27D
Front-and-center section
VIOLAS
28D
Like fringe festival fare
EDGY
30D
It has a Marxist-Leninist ideology
LAOS
33D
Car payment?
TOLL
34D
Bêtes noires
BANES
35D
Aid in studying a culture
TEST TUBE
36D
Dump
STY
38D
Equipment for a rock band
DRUM SET
40D
Gewgaw
BAUBLE
42D
Coat
ENROBE
One Clue Crossword
WordBrain
WordBubbles!
Word Whizzle
Words Crush
43D
Design info
SPECS
44D
Davis of film
GEENA
45D
Really put one’s foot down
STOMP
47D
Berth place
PIER
48D
Repute
ODOR
50D
Was reckless, in a way
SPED
52D
K’ung Fu-___
TSE
53D
41-Across is a topic in it, briefly
BIO
1A
Rugby rival of Harvard
MCGILL
7A
It operates Hamburger U.
MICKEY D’S
15A
Like many offshore rescues
AIR-SEA
16A
Visiting only a short time
IN AND OUT
17A
1955 R&B hit for Bo Diddley
I’M A MAN
18A
Ri-i-ight
SURE SURE
19A
Buff
MAVEN
20A
17-Across, to the self-titled “Bo Diddley”
B-SIDE
21A
Took care of
RAN
22A
Free of shampoo, say
RINSE OUT
24A
Shut (up)
PENT
25A
Cleopatre artist
ERTE
26A
Directory listings: Abbr.
NOS
27A
A place antelope lope
VELDT
29A
Kittenish
COY
30A
Maugham’s title girl of Lambeth
LIZA
31A
Suspicion
IDEA
32A
Live
ONSTAGE
34A
Uses without sharing, in slang
BOGARTS
37A
What there often is for improvement
ROOM
38A
Golfer nicknamed Long John
DALY
39A
Interruption of service?
NET
40A
Model material
BALSA
41A
Translation material
RNA
42A
Website used by a lot of artisans
ETSY
43A
Breeze (along)
SAIL
44A
Huh ..A#never mind then
GUESS NOT
46A
One of “the highest form of literature,” per Hitchcock
PUN
47A
They’re “made by fools like me,” per Kilmer
POEMS
49A
Parades, with “out”
TROTS
51A
Rollback events
EBB TIDES
53A
Start, in a way
BOOT UP
54A
Squeaker
CLOSE ONE
55A
Lift one’s spirits?
IMBIBE
56A
Subterranean scurrier
SEWER RAT
57A
Played first
OPENED