SHEFFER CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Choose to participate 6 Bush

11 Italian cheese 12 Substance in red wine 14 Sacred river

15 Nail polish

16 Rap sheet abbr.

17 Office part-timers 19 Copper head?

20 Makes lace

22 Caesar or Vicious 23 Baltic Sea feeder 24 Related on mom's side

26 Male geese

28 TV spots

30 Lemon

31 Rap style

35 Fashion designer Bill 39 Spanish cheers

40 Rock's Ocasek 42 Caterwaul 43 Body of water (Abbr.) 44 Copycat

46 Estuary

47 Got ready, with “up” 49 Sinclair Lewis'

“Elmer —”

51 Tolerate

52 Chronicles

53 Wise ones

54 Film spools

DOWN

1 Certain Honshu resident

2 Target at a fiesta 3 Label

4 “— a Kick Out of You” 5 Odor detectors 6 Member of a blended family

7 — Christian Andersen 8 Genetic letters 9 Rumpled, as a bed 10 “Baby” singer

Justin

11 Marble type

13 Mets and Cards, e.g. 18 “Top Gun” target 21 Antlered animals 23 “Strange as it seems ...”

25 Mag. staff

27 Gist

29 Long steps

31 Canyon 32 Extraterrestrials

33 The Silver State

34 Goal

36 Of a blood line 37 Marble cake patterns 38 Does in

41 Humidor item

44 Simple

45 Prop for Dr. House 48 Bad hairpiece

50 SSW opposite