SHEFFER CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Remain

5 Rope fiber

9 Feedbag morsel

12 Toy block name 13 Author Quindlen 14 “Alice” waitress 15 Starch-yielding plant

17 Little lie

18 Cracker type 19 Irritable

21 Symbol of strength 22 Dickens' Heep 24 Karate school

27 Away from WSW 28 Pyramid, maybe 31 Glamorous Gardner 32 201, in old Rome 33 Tic-tac-toe win 34 PC alternatives 36 Scamper

37 Harrow rival

38 Out of order 40 “That's a laugh!” 41 Cellist Casals 43 Derby prizes

47 2016 Olympics city 48 “Sundown” singer Gordon 51 Commotion

52 Elbow counterpart 53 Forearm bone 54 Wrestling surface 55 From the start

56 For fear that

DOWN

1 Dross

2 Region (Abbr.)

3 Taj Mahal city 4 Attention-getting call 5 Injure

6 Rock's Brian

7 6 on a phone

8 Singer LaBelle 9 Branch

10 Landed 11 Country singer Keith 16 Letter sealer

20 Chow down 22 Full-length, like a film

23 Check

24 Weir

25 Lab eggs

26 Soldier's footwear 27 Beige

29 Cow's comment 30 “— voyage!”

35 Bando of baseball 37 Juicy bit of gossip 39 Gdansk dance

40 Grass shack

41 Baby carriage

42 Opera set in Egypt 43 “Close one!”

44 Only

45 Billions of years

46 RBI, for one

49 Hostel

50 “Gosh!”