9/16/16
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1A
Jam-packed
Dense
6A
Braying beasts
Asses
11A
Poke (caramel sucker brand)
Slo
14A
Ham-handed
Inept
15A
Blue Grotto locale
Capri
16A
Surfacing stuff
Tar
17A
Wild pig in a news story? (P, D cut from a common phrase
Article Boar
19A
Chemical used in making 51-Across
Lye
20A
“You fell for it!”
Gotcha
21A
Election winners
Ins
22A
“Family Guy” wife
Lois
23A
Hold sway
Rule
24A
Number of stoves in a store’s inventory? (0, Y cut)
Range Count
27A
Filled up on
Ate
28A
MBA, e.g.
Deg
29A
Well-versed
Erudite
30A
Big Pharma product
Med
31A
Middle East’s Gulf of
Aden
33A
Baja bread
Pesos
34A
Circuits run around an Atlanta university? (M, E cut)
Emory Laps
37A
Alternatives to Surfaces
iPads
40A
Solomonic sort
Sage
41A
Prez on a dime
FDR
44A
Williams with the 1984 No. 1 hit “Let’s Hear It for the Boy”
Deniece
47A
Make one
Wed
48A
Gun, at the starting line
Rev
49A
What’s seen when a tattoo parlor catches fire? (P, 0 cut)
Ink Flaming
51A
Cleansing cake
Soap
One Clue Crossword
WordBrain
WordBubbles!
Word Whizzle
Words Crush
52A
Word before a discount price
Only
53A
One of the documentarian Burns brothers
Ric
54A
Meeting handout
Agenda
56A
kwon do
Tae
57A
Salesman’s mild spiel? (F, N cut)
Light Patter
59A
Acct. earnings
Int
60A
Yeshiva reading
Torah
61A
Assaulted the nostrils
Stank
62A
Euro divs.
Cts
63A
Caused by
Dueto
64A
Grappler’s repertoire
Holds
1D
You’re filling one in now
Diagram
2D
Getting there
Enroute
3D
In a pique
Nettled
4D
Nutmeg, e.g.
Spice
5D
Engrave on glass, say
Etch
6D
Top starting pitcher
Ace
7D
Polio vaccine pioneer Albert
Sabin
8D
Parasitic sort
Sponge
9D
Tip of a No. 2
Eraser
10D
Anthony Hopkins title
Sir
11D
Home of the Blues
St Louis
12D
Lambaste
Lay Into
13D
The Furies pursued him
Orestes
18D
City west of Corpus Christi
Laredo
22D
Valuable deposits
Lodes
25D
Word after New or golden
Ager
26D
Like the hands of an aims-seeker
Cupped
28D
Movie maiden “in distress”
Damsel
32D
Gov. Cuomo’s domain
Nys
34D
Uplift spiritually
Edify
35D
North (White House area)
Lawn
36D
Feature of a May-December romance
Age Gap
37D
More than dumb
Idiotic
38D
October baseball prize
Pennant
39D
Short socks
Anklet
41D
lobe (brain part)
Frontal
42D
Maze feature
Dead End
43D
Lots of campers?
RV Parks
45D
Len of “Sweeney Todd”
Cariou
46D
One seeking asylum
Émigré
50D
Apple software replaced by Messages
I Chat
51D
Brief fracas
Setto
55D
Major cut
Gash
57D
Bygone Ford model
LTD
58D
Albeit, briefly
Tho