12/23/17 Answer Daily Celebrity Crossword

12/23/17
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1A
Burn a little bit
Char

5A
Jelly container
Jar

8A
James Bond or Austin Powers, for example
Spy

11A
Muscle of the upper arm, informally
Bicep

13A
King Kong was one
Ape

14A
Big gun lobby: Abbr.
NRA

15A
With 48-Across, “60 Minutes” correspondent who scored Obama’s last TV interview as president
Steve

16A
Mountain pass
Gap

17A
MacBook laptop model
Air

18A
Sphere
Orb

20A
Give up one’s job
Resign

22A
“60 Minutes” correspondent who’s a former moderator of “Face the Nation”: 2 wds.
Lesley Stahl

26A
Salted snack often shaped like a knot
Pretzel

27A
Home to Arizona State’s largest campus
Tempe

30A
Test for many college seniors: Abbr.
GRE

31A
Political title for Chuck Schumer: Abbr.
Sen

33A
Thin battery size
AAA

34A
Item in the plus column
Asset

37A
“Mary ____” (Julie Andrews movie)
Poppins

40A
“60 Minutes” correspondent who met Pope Francis in 2015: 2 wds.
Scott Pelley

42A
Traveling from town to town, like a rock band: 2 wds.
On Tour

44A
____ de cologne
Eau

45A
Largest US teachers’ union: Abbr.
NEA

46A
“The Princess and the ____” (fairy tale)
Pea

48A
See 15-Across
Kroft

52A
Used ___ salesman
Car

53A
Body part with a lobe
Ear

54A
“Sexy ____” (Beatles song)
Sadie

55A
Hectic hospital wards: Abbr.
ERs

56A
And others: Abbr.
ETC

57A
Give as a loan
Lend

1D
“60 Minutes” network
CBS

2D
Successful guess in Battleship
Hit

3D
Card that may be “in the hole”
Ace

4D
What the Founding Fathers did against England
Revolt

5D
Show from which “NCIS” was spun off
Jag

6D
No longer together
Apart

7D
Do over again
Repeat

8D
Messages sent via the post office: 2 wds.
Snail Mail

9D
Overly righteous type
Prig

10D
Wool for knitting
Yarn

12D
Actress Rosie of “White Men Can’t Jump”
Perez

19D
They allow tournament seeds to skip early rounds of play
Byes

21D
“___ sells seashells by the seashore” (tongue twister)
She

22D
Group for female athletes who swing clubs: Abbr.
LPGA

23D
Gets something wrong
Errs

24D
Suffers from a blow to the head: 2 wds.
Sees Stars

25D
Slumbered
Slept

28D
Glass section of a window
Pane

29D
Simple
Easy

32D
“Uh-uh”
Nope

35D
___-friendly (good for the Earth)
Eco

36D
Bald guy’s fake hair
Toupee

38D
“Twin ____” (show that was revived in 2017)
Peaks

39D
Opposite of singular, in grammar
Plural

41D
Pay everyone’s bill
Treat

42D
Just a single time
Once

43D
“As ___ as I can tell …”
Near

47D
Cannonball’s curved path
Arc

49D
Keats’s “____ on a Grecian Urn”
Ode

50D
What a scuba diver wears on the foot
Fin

51D
Journalist Koppel
Ted