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