ACROSS
  • 1. Event with rounds and rounds
  • 8. The second blank in the Latin hymn “___ pro ___”
  • 13. Kiev’s country
  • 14. Rodeo horse
  • 15. Airport figures with names on signs
  • 16. Playground retort
  • 17. The Thin Man pooch
  • 18. Going full tilt
  • 20. Christmas tree
  • 21. “Vive le ___!”
  • 23. Eggs, e.g.
  • 25. Org. concerned with endangered species
  • 28. Once again
  • 30. Algonquin Indian
  • 31. Tom Petty’s backup band, with “The”
  • 34. Poker pot starter
  • 35. Large antelope
  • 36. NNW’s opposite
  • 37. Police enforce it
  • 39. Long in the tooth
  • 41. Cambodia’s Lon ___
  • 42. Twin of Genesis
  • 44. Krabappel of The Simpsons
  • 48. Online group mailing tool
  • 50. Bumped in a crowd
  • 52. One of the noble gases
  • 53. Walker of the Miami Heat
  • 54. Boys Don’t Cry subject Brandon ___
  • 55. Copies
DOWN
  • 1. Reebok rival
  • 2. Strings at a luau
  • 3. Author ___ Easton Ellis
  • 4. Persian Gulf country
  • 5. One-eighty
  • 6. 2007 Radiohead album
  • 7. Piquancy
  • 8. Chuck channel
  • 9. The first blank in the Latin hymn “___ pro ___”
  • 10. Camp sights
  • 11. Those in the know
  • 12. 2006 Best Director Oscar winner
  • 19. “Thanks, pal. Next time, my treat”
  • 22. Kind of bran
  • 24. Doc ___, Spider-Man foe
  • 25. “And then… ?”
  • 26. Taiwanese-born American scientist accused of stealing U.S. nuclear secrets for China in 1999
  • 27. Indicator of success in life, to a palm reader
  • 29. Miss the mark
  • 32. Fam. reunion attendee
  • 33. Rock’s Rose
  • 38. Big name in HMOs
  • 40. Artoo ___
  • 43. Trojan War hero
  • 45. MMMCCCLIV / VI
  • 46. State bird of Hawaii
  • 47. Fruity drinks
  • 49. Heir, often
  • 51. Narrow waterway: Abbr.
  • 43. Bone: prefix