Kings of the Diamond

by Jason Benetti
Across
1. Home of Il Colosseo
5. Author Emile
9. Where to watch the 28across finals, if tuned to
ESPN
14. Basics
15. Utah city
16. Illegal torching
17. While at LSU, the last
player to hit two triples in a
game at the 28-across
19. "Cool!"
20. "What ___ to do?"
21. Melville novel
22. While at FSU, the only
player to hit three home runs
in a game at the 28-across
23. Only 28-across MVP in
the MLB Hall of Fame
26. Former MLB closer
Robb
27. Opposite of SSW
28. The subj. of this puzzle,
found in 36-Across
31. Another, for short
33. Sugar Ray frontman
Mark and his family
35. "Scram!"
36. Site of 28-Across, or a
Counting Crows song
38. "Darn!"
39. Fresh infusions of talent
41. Cinema
42. Said after JK?
43. Average grade
44. Billiard implement
45. Only coach to win backto-back 28-across
championships in the 1980s
51. Home of the first 28across champion from the
SEC
54. Biblical twin
55. PC "brain"
56. Soft rock band, or what
you'd pay for its song
"Guitar Man"
57. Northwesternmost city
to house a 28-across
champion
59. Feather pen

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1. Brother of Rihanna
2. Only U.S. President from
Hawaii
3. 746 years before the first
28-across in 36-across, to a
native of 1-across
4. Question
5. Get closer, as with a
camera
6. Mythological hunter
7. __ lamb
8. Qty.
9. Part of an entourage
10. Stallone's Judge
11. Nicholas II, for one
12. Cast a ballot

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60. Wings: Lat.

61. Reid of "American Pie"
62. Taste or smell
63. Exile to Hades
64. W.W. II gun

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13. Fluffy precipitation

18. You might buy one
before spinning
22. Block stacking game
24. Fund
25. Ruler unit
28. ___ + ALT + DEL
29. "Wake Me Up Before
You Go-Go" group
30. Boom source
31. "Excuse me ..."
32. Sad
33. Pas' wives
34. Farewell, in Paris
35. Prog. known for its
monologues
36. Unders' partners
37. Those who shall inherit?
40. Can't hold __ to
41. Duke business school
44. Scream director Wes

45. Breakfast, lunch and

dinner
46. Former U.S. soccer
goalie Tony
47. Northern Iranian city
48. Acclaim
49. Steeple
50. Sarandon or Lucci
51. The Breaking Bad
episode with the plane crash,
et al.
52. Not false
53. Online legal research
company namesake William
57. Scoundrel
58. P.D. officials like Frank
Drebin