QUICK CROSSWORD

Across

1 Rhyming description of one who’s very extra

11 Alternative bands?

15 Tried

16 Wedding dress option

17 Weary response to a rant

18 Not winning or losing

19 French military cap

20 Dispatch

21 Oft-used tissue

22 Works in a museum

23 Egg layer

24 Catchy song

26 Needle pt.

27 Took the reins

28 Muppet who had a cameo on “The West Wing”

29 Sara’s “And Just Like That ... ” role

30 D.C. figure

31 “We might want to hire a chef”

33 Leaves in tears?

35 Indiana’s conference

36 Quite a stretch

37 Olive __

38 Negatives

39 Hrs. not observed by most of Arizona

40 Chemical ending

41 “So frustrating!”

42 “__ Sure the Boy I Love”

43 “Captain Marvel” actor

46 Connection points

48 “The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On” poet Franny

50 Nadal’s nickname

51 Perched on

52 Sarcastic reply to a bogus offer

54 Turn signal?

55 “The underdog is rallying!”

56 Court decisions

57 Creative outlets?

Down

1 Home of the Bengal Classical Music Festival

2 Pinker

3 Crack

4 Brief petition

5 Back

6 Messed (up)

7 Encumbered

8 Boatloads

9 “My whole worldview just shifted”

10 Put away

11 City that a bubbly person might enjoy

12 Breed of the Guinness World Records’ longest cat

13 Charity concert, perhaps

14 Hump day time

21 Scoured

23 Seconds or thirds

25 W alternative

27 Singer with the children’s album “Camp Lisa”

28 Noses (out)

30 Left a drag show?

31 Cut off

32 Solidify

33 Suggestion made with confidence

34 Grammy-winning album with the hit “Earfquake”

35 Surface for digital art

39 Rational believers

42 Like a hygge dwelling

43 Oktoberfest choice

44 Lit

45 L.A.’s __ Towers

47 Actor Omar

49 Oil tycoon who once owned the New York Jets

50 Settle elsewhere, in jargon

52 Refuse to settle

53 Target of dumbbell rows, informally