Across 1. Baby powder 5. Molecule part 9. Some conjunctions 13. Most error-prone part of an information processing system 14. Actress Spelling 15. Australian female name 16. Tiger’s final, painful win of 2008 18. Sniffers 19. Catholic secondary school attended by Russert 21. Constellation containing Altair 24. ___ up (prepares) 25. Team whose alumni sent flowers for Russert’s wake 29. Split partway down 30. Jewish holiday 31. Actors’ union 34. Communicating over a long distance (ham radio term) 35. “The working conditions are lousy, but the ___ great.” 36. Composer Orff 37. Tetley product 38. Rock’s three-time costar 39. Bulgarian capital 40. Russert’s show for more than 16 years 42. Jumped 44. Medical professionals 45. Sixth-ranked nonfiction bestseller of 2004 49. Straight, so to speak 50. Carry on, as a war 54. “... the ___ of defeat”

55. Beige 56. Part of Algebra II, usu. 57. Nota ___ 58. Freebie 59. Missile housing Down 1. Boy king 2. Cigarette waste 3. Side away from wind 4. Religious art object 5. Like much 20th-century orchestral music 6. African antelope 7. They contain metals 8. Popular British auto 9. Hails or farewells 10. Polite denial 11. Lees 12. Merit badge holder 15. Saint whose day is March 3 17. Word with house or days 20. Certain citrus fruits 21. Monastery head 22. Harvard logician, 1908-2000 23. Norwegian equivalent of “oy vey” 26. Moiré patterns, possibly 27. “Sorry, I don’t ___.” 28. Russert’s parents were ___ Catholic 31. Features of some walls 32. Get up 33. Composer Philip 35. Some English majors 36. Uses red ink 38. Lieutenant, of a sort 39. Froth 40. Leatherneck 41. Finishes 42. Sovereign 43. ___ one’s face 45. Spill the beans 46. On ___ (without a contract) 47. With the bow 48. Cheers fixture 51. Magician Geller 52. “___ death do ...” 53. Latin for “I”