SHEFFER CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Tightfisted

6 Beam

11 Aussie gal

12 Mementos

14 Bean variety

15 Retaliate

16 Director Lee

17 Bolivian city

19 Dead heat

20 Low digits

22 Lobbyists' org.

23 Fax

24 Road curves

26 Inventor Eli

28 Balloon filler

30 Thee

31 Pop singer Spears 35 Prepare to transplant, as a flower

39 Operates

40 Nanny's charge 42 Corrida charger 43 “GMA” network 44 Trivial

46 Squid squirt 47 Danny of “Lethal Weapon”

49 Capital of

New South Wales 51 Tranquil

52 Cuba's Fidel

53 Feel

54 Nervous

DOWN

1 Khaki pants

2 Yard borders

3 Aachen article

4 Pub orders

5 Settle a debt

6 Like potatoes 7 Relocate

8 Presidential nickname 9 Pre-Easter

10 Car part that purrs 11 Use the rink 13 Run-down

18 Crow's cry

21 Plane assignments 23 Daredevil's feat

25 Fall from grace 27 Debtor's letters 29 Pension beneficiary 31 Is boastful

32 Moscow money 33 Encrypted

34 Thither

36 Scoreboard count 37 Cantankerous 38 Honshu city

41 Puccini opera

44 Citi Field team 45 TV host Seacrest 48 Moving vehicle 50 “Spring ahead” hrs.