SHEFFER CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Passing craze 4 Slightly

8 Millinery

12 Blackbird

13 Little, to Verdi

14 Black, in verse 15 Extend a hand (to) 17 Start of a spell 18 Business attire 19 Borneo ape, for short 20 Recorded

22 Blue material? 24 Hollywood clashers 25 Fruit-filled dessert 29 Sun. talk

30 Cook eggs in water 31 Green prefix

32 Mentors

34 Jazz great Getz 35 Easter entrees

36 Avoids

37 Scoff at 40 Writer Didion

41 Actor Neeson 42 Percolating, as water 46 Like most car radios 47 Sty cry

48 Bond rating 49 Inquisitive

50 Till bills

51 Secret agent

DOWN

1 Distant

2 Chemical suffix 3 Migration of a sort 4 Garden pest 5 Cowboy's footwear 6 Post-op area 7 Nanny's charge 8 Fireplace part 9 “Waterloo” group 10 Undecided

11 Hose woe

16 Pool sticks 19 “That hurts!”

20 Try out

21 Baseball's Tommie 22 Cauterizes 23 PC alternatives 25 Verse 26 Funnel-shaped flowers

27 Optimist's credo 28 Billions of years 30 Excellent, in slang 33 Palsy-walsy 34 Persian bigwig 36 Foot warmers 37 Custard recipe 38 Long ride? 39 Lummoxes 40 Tarzan's mate 42 Brit's restroom 43 Aachen article 44 Snooze

45 Carefree