Crossword: Milestones

by Kishore Rajesh

ACROSS

1 Rudy, or Rocky
11 402 in Rome
15 A hat-trick scorer, for example
16 Fan sounds
17 Misclicks or forbidden inputs
18 Spanish card suit
19 “Where did __ my keys?”
20 Actor Gordon-Levitt of 500 Days of Summer
22 Braughs who played Neils Bohr in Oppenheimer
25 White or brown sauce with strained or puréed onions
26 Comes to light
27 The eighth had six wives
28 Pays to play
29 Records
30 __ Arbuckle, Garfield’s owner
33 Seinfeld played one
34 Does 45A
35 Latin 101 verb
36 Donkey
37 Say it loud and there’s music playing / Say it soft and it’s almost like praying
38 Whitewashed
40 Burger topper
41 Plunder
42 American abolitionist Tubman
45 Diet
46 Irish-themed Vegas Casino
47 “Peter Pan” baddie
48 Tony’s cousin
49 “Be patient”
55 Posterior
56 Pac-man, for example
57 A long time
58 20A, 22A, 27A, 30A, 37A, and 42A, in relation to Mudd

DOWN

1 Disco __ of The Simpsons
2 Acidity measurements
3 Mine find
4 Get more soap out of
5 Prairie homes
6 Walks with a swagger
7 Actor Colin of “Love Actually”
8 Texter’s qualifier
9 The once-__ of Lorax fame
10 Title partner of “me” in a 1972 Billy Paul #1 hit
11 Bing singing
12 “Should I suggest it?”
13 Makers of many links
14 “This __”: formal phone response
21 Couple’s word
22 Sacred site in Islam
23 Sea eagles
24 Evenings, in ad-speak
25 Nasal walls
27 Invites over
29 Fortune cards
30 __ Lee Curtis of Everything Everywhere All at Once
31 Signs
32 Parents and children in a tree
34 Mug exchange
37 Mother of Hermes
38 Got dark
39 Start of some school anthems
40 Pug and Corgi
41 City west of Baghdad
42 Commotion
43 __ as a whale
44 River of Cologne
45 ¿Cómo __?
50 Pirate greeting
51 Rocks
52 __ Diego
53 CPR Expert
54 Some MIT grads

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