By George Barany and Friends
This politically themed puzzle comes to you from a consortium of progressively-minded friends of Rockefeller alum (1977) George Barany, who is currently on the faculty of the University of Minnesota-Twin Cities. For more about this specific puzzle, including a link to its answer, visit here. More Barany and Friends puzzles can be found here.
ACROSS
- Way to go
- Env. stuffer, at times
- Doo-wop syllable
- Can. city
- Cacophonous
- Make tawdry
- Brazilian city, familiarly
- Like a GOP candidate’s convoluted approach to the Jewish question?
- Surfing site
- Triangle type
- “___ B?”
- Dedicatee of a piano classic
- Like ears of some politicians
- GOP candidate’s optical illusion?
- City Obama visited to receive his 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
- Those, to José
- Houston AFL team that became the Tennessee Titans
- Fascinate
- Communication system for the gorilla Koko: Abbr.
- Jai ___
- “La Fille du Regiment” role that made Pavarotti a superstar
- Showy annuals
- Political scandal topic, perhaps
- GOP candidate’s autonomous tactics?
- African-American alternative to LGBT
- Ties together
- Supremes’ wear
- Pub pints
- Ball girl?
- Reason for a bad hare day?
- “Le ___” (Matisse piece)
- Sicilian volcano
- John or Paul, but not George or Ringo
- Like a GOP candidate’s amateurish operation?
- God, to a Rastafarian
- Legend maker
- California’s Big ___
- Leary who advocated “”turn on, tune in, drop out”
- You can give it a whirl
- GOP code for pro-gay, proabortion Jews
- Med. care grp. in the USA
- Staring at trouble
- Nail-biting
- José or Francisco’s leader?
- John Quincy, to John Adams
- Masthead VIPs
- Brand, in a way
DOWN
- Cut back
- Like Carson’s campaign, it seems
- Soliloquy starter
- Styling stuff
- Green concern: Abbr.
- Ice-loving org.
- Fragrant coniferous trees
- Kind of bank where you lose interest after making a deposit?
- The other woman
- Cherubim, at the Vatican
- South African golfer nicknamed “The Big Easy”
- Requiem Mass hymn
- Chain whose name derives from its original room rate
- Rice-A-___
- “___ Ben Adhem”
- Swindler, slangily
- Kinks song with the lyrics “girls will be boys and boys will be girls”
- Vehicle that’s hailed
- ___ opposites
- Baseball’s Mel or Ed
- Welcome sign on B’way
- Multi-PC hookup, for short
- Steakhouse sound
- Put out
- Actress Bening
- Squelches
- Chief ___-A-Homa (onetime Braves mascot)
- Put into pigeonholes, maybe
- Excessive
- Gun show exemptions, e.g.
- Rest periods
- Eyesight issue
- Becomes more lenient with
- Introduction to chemistry?
- Clairvoyance, e.g.
- “___ You Later, Alligator” (hit for Bill Haley and the Comets)
- Very, to Wilhelm
- Indira’s son and successor
- Grammy winner Morissette
- The Continent
- Dam site in Egypt
- Dolls’ dates
- Latin 101 word, much loved in crosswords
- NYC Theater District discount booth
- Adjust, as a radio
- “___ real nowhere man”
- North Sea flower
- Composer of crosswords?
- Carew or Stewart
