10/28/16
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1D
Singer Twain
SHANIA
2D
Blood lines
AORTAS
3D
Are you ___?!
MAD
4D
Cries that might be made while hopping on one foot
OWS
5D
Slight interruption
AHEM
6D
Sure-to-succeed
NO-LOSE
7D
One with commercial interests, for short
AD REP
8D
Nothing, in Nantes
RIEN
9D
Chant often heard toward the end of an N.B.A. season
MVP!
10D
Rick’s, for one
PIANO BAR
11D
Speech habits unique to an individual
IDIOLECT
12D
The first one was delivered in 1984
TED TALK
13D
___ Stop the Rain (1970 hit)
WHO’LL
14D
Fright night?
ALL HALLOWS’ EVE
20D
Pusillanimous
TIMID
23D
More festive
MERRIER
25D
Views
BEHOLDS
27D
Hiker’s climb
RIDGE
28D
Six-time Hugo Award winner Ben
BOVA
29D
Invoice word
REMIT
32D
Actress Sherilyn who was an Emmy nominee for “Twin Peaks”
FENN
33D
Common ingredient in furniture polish
LEMON OIL
34D
No doubt!
OF COURSE!
35D
NASA spacecraft designed for travel to Mars
ORION
36D
Units at a horse race
LENGTHS
40D
Whiskered animals
OTTERS
41D
With 54-Down, longtime Long Island home of Theodore Roosevelt
OYSTER
One Clue Crossword
WordBrain
WordBubbles!
Word Whizzle
Words Crush
42D
Lays to rest
INTERS
43D
Frigid temps
TEENS
45D
They may have bullets
LISTS
48D
Main thrust
MEAT
49D
Field
AREA
52D
The Nikkei 225 is one of its indexes: Abbr.
TSE
54D
See 41-Down
BAY
55D
Some lines of Milton
ODE
1A
Like the national currency known as the tala
SAMOAN
7A
Axilla
ARMPIT
13A
Hold on there now!
WHOA WHOA!
15A
Chasm
DIVIDE
16A
Powerful pitch
HARD SELL
17A
Settled with
REPAID
18A
London locale: Abbr.
ONT
19A
Like the outer core of the earth
MOLTEN
21A
Certain logic gate
NOT
22A
One Direction member Payne
LIAM
24A
The Flying Dutchman, e.g.
SHIP
25A
Limb-entangling weapon
BOLA
26A
One nearly cut Bond in half in “Goldfinger”
LASER BEAM
29A
Rise up
REBEL
30A
1983 double-platinum album by Duran Duran
RIO
31A
Everyday productivity enhancer, in modern lingo
LIFE HACK
33A
Fictional character whose name is French for “flight of death”
LORD VOLDEMORT
36A
Leading newspaper that took its name from a stage comedy
LE FIGARO
37A
It’s nothing, really
NIL
38A
One making introductions
EMCEE
39A
You can’t make me!
I WON’T DO IT!
44A
Queen dowager of Jordan
NOOR
45A
Beyond repair
LOST
46A
Ago, in an annual song
SYNE
47A
Animal with horns
GNU
48A
Norman ___, first Asian-American to hold a cabinet post
MINETA
50A
Abbr. in an office address
STE
51A
Princess cake and others
TORTES
53A
Simply not done
VERBOTEN
56A
Show disdain for, in a way
HISS AT
57A
Subject of some PC Magazine reviews
E-READERS
58A
Mixed forecasts?
SLEETS
59A
N.F.L. Hall-of-Famer nicknamed “The Kansas Comet”
SAYERS