SHEFFER CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Mexican snack

5 Jazzy style

8 Grade-school basics

12 — about (roughly)

13 Barn bird

14 Follow

15 Hose woe

16 Met Opera soprano Price

18 Deli meat

20 Briefly halted

21 Bright star

23 Tolkien creature

24 Immaculate

28 British noble

31 Paul Newman film

32 “I've —!” (“No more!”)

34 Sock part

35 Nile wader

37 Nearly a score

39 Bar bill

41 Noble Italian family

42 Czech, e.g.

45 Rip to shreds

49 Orange vegetable pigment

51 “The Godfather” author

52 Latin love

53 Floral ring

54 Kimono ties

55 Pills, in slang

56 Light brown

57 Try out

DOWN

1 Pitch

2 Author Quindlen

3 Furnace fuel

4 Church keyboards

5 La Paz native

6 Have bills

7 Fall into a chair

8 Harmonize

9 Massachusetts nickname

10 French movie

11 “Citizen Kane” prop

17 Scot's denial

19 Fluttery insect

22 MacDowell of “Green Card”

24 Greek consonant

25 Massage

26 Annual Alaskan race

27 Physicist Albert

29 Fish eggs

30 Actor Cariou

33 Head, to Henri

36 Relishes

38 Oolong brewer

40 Morsel

42 Con job

43 Hobbling

44 Ancient Brit

46 Hayseed

47 Submachine guns

48 Blog entry

50 PBS funder