ACROSS
  • 1. Take off a wool coat
  • 6. Pleasant drives?
  • 13. ___ Stanfield, drug lord on The Wire
  • 14. “Somehow everything gets done”
  • 15. Accede
  • 16. Was not cooped up
  • 17. Betty Draper portrayer on Mad Men
  • 19. Like a CPO
  • 20. Marking on luggage headed to O’Hare
  • 21. Sex columnist Savage
  • 24. Banish to Hades
  • 27. “___ la vie!”
  • 30. Daily Bugle editor in Spider-Man
  • 33. “It’s the ___ Old Song”
  • 34. The very best
  • 35. Palindromic king
  • 36. “___ Loser” (Beatles song)
  • 38. Pant attachment?
  • 40. Entertainer involved in a “wardrobe malfunction” during Super Bowl XXXVIII
  • 46. He wrote “In the country of the blind, the one-eyed man is king”
  • 47. Hawke of film
  • 49. Doles out
  • 50. Vixen’s master
  • 51. Contentious political assembly
  • 52. March along
DOWN
  • 1. Bitty, in Banff
  • 2. Muslim pilgrim
  • 3. Bombeck of humor
  • 4. Slip cover?
  • 5. Jefferson Memorial feature
  • 6. One way to Southampton: Abbr.
  • 7. “It depends”
  • 8. Square-dance instrument
  • 9. Operational
  • 10. Level best
  • 11. Double-S molding
  • 12. Gets a glimpse
  • 18. “Bye!” in Hawaii
  • 21. Provides music for a wedding reception, perhaps
  • 22. Steely Dan album with the songs “Black Cow” and “Deacon Blues”
  • 23. Put forward
  • 25. Spanish looker?
  • 26. “___ Monday”
  • 28. Five-centime coin
  • 29. Big-bang maker
  • 31. Superman, to Lex Luthor
  • 32. Most resembling Caspar Milquetoast
  • 37. ___ clock (self-winding timepiece)
  • 39. Red giant
  • 40. Make malteds, e.g.
  • 41. Ireland’s ___ Island
  • 42. Graduation month
  • 43. Secretary, e.g.: Abbr.
  • 44. Golf course lament
  • 45. Iceland is part of it: Abbr.
  • 48. Bit of shut-eye