SHEFFER CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Prepare to travel 5 Em halves

8 Lose color

12 Algerian port

13 601, to Nero

14 Tale teller 15 Cleopatra's river 16 Chickpea 18 Pygmalion's statue 20 Poker payments 21 Uno + uno

22 Pants part

23 Cook in the oven 26 Graceful antelope 30 Half of bi

31 Allen or Daly 32 Longing

33 Parking places 36 Velocity

38 Scepter

39 Bill's partner 40 Getting 100 on 43 Sealing rings 47 Play-ending arcade message

49 Power co. supply 50 PC programs 51 Hostel

52 — avis

53 Colonial seamstress

54 Packed away

55 Thin cut

DOWN

1 Vintage video game

2 Operatic solo

3 Use a phone

4 Works with dough 5 Rims

6 March Madness gp. 7 Polite address 8 Projecting rim 9 “— She Sweet” 10 Stupor

11 Love god 17 Folk singer Joan 19 Preschooler 22 Felon's flight

23 Bad hairpiece 24 Out — limb 25 Football filler 26 USO audience 27 Caustic cleaner 28 Author Harper 29 Finale

31 Actor Danson 34 “Gunsmoke” star 35 Type of dancer 36 “Mayday!” 37 Fireplace tools 39 Chili con —

40 Petri dish gel 41 Mafia boss 42 Rapscallions 43 Bloke

44 Israeli airline 45 Garr of “Tootsie” 46 “Shoo!”

48 By way of