Beyond Problematic
Across
1.“Crawl” location
4.Unfortunate
7.Oil recovery effort attempted after shoe and race car failed (2 wds)
13.Lennon’s better, er, other half
14.Schlemiel’s speech
16.Bacteria-infecting virus
17.Electronic item as useful as a beeper
18.Company with a hand in seemingly every public screw-up
19.Fancy, Britishized version of 38A
21.Exam administered by alleged not-for-profit group
22.Coastal states may be nearing it
24.Pants part
27.Australian peckers
28.Therefore, to nerds
29.Sheets and stuff
31.“The limit,” to Lil’ Wayne
32.Improper receptacle for 38A
33.What haste makes
35.Too exclusive for baby Jesus
38.About 1/3 of the Gulf of Mexico at most recent estimate
39.Usually not found in so-called punch
41.Parking often located here
44.Many
45.Early failed contraption to contain oil spill
46.Online gambler (2 wds)
50.Govt. agency that recently said f—k it and went home
52.Only option for gulf seafood preparation
54.This leak might be called “a manmade f—king _______ of epic proportions!”
56.Place full of happy women, whipped men
57.Tequila component
58. Bets
59.Sick
60.Cheapest bookmark
61.Ground cover
62.Caustic cleaner
Down
1.Bear, Smurf title
2.Beneath
3. Shrimpers, to some
4.Shaving chips
5.Troubled
6.Mislead, as with low-ball oil leakage estimates
8.Berkeley Breathed’s crowning achievement
9.Prepositional device
10.Mad professionals
11.Back then
12.A baker’s dozen, after you eat a few
14.Ancient military lord, present-day chain restaurant
15.Slightly less cool than a party bus
20.Dorm room staple
23.An underwater detonation of one of these could make the oil cleanup process much more awesome
25.“Just a number” (but hopefully below 60 and above 18)
26.Bearer of jam, the Virgin Mary
29.Scottish landowner
30.Amigo
31.Pig residence
33.Girls Gone ____
34.Wear away, like wetlands
36.Keanu Reeves’ defining role
37.AA fashion piece (2 wds)
39.Can be frosted
40.Spoon or fork
42.Road work overdue in much of BR
43.Hosiery
44.What Robin Hood did, to people with flexible grammar
47.___-cadabra
48.___-Talk, communication software
49.Email option
51.Floating, perhaps
53.An Earnhardt
54.Knave
55.“Hey, didn’t I see this answer some time ___?”
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