SHEFFER CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Optimistic

5 Pod dweller

8 Last write-up

12 Director Preminger 13 Campaigned 14 Mediocre

15 Web surfer's shortcut 17 Low digits

18 Sargasso wriggler

19 Big T-shirt sizes 21 Muumuu accessory 22 Director Kazan

23 Short 'do

26 Potent stick

28 Brilliance

31 Denny's rival 33 Computer key

35 Abode

36 Crude dudes

38 Spa sounds

40 Choose

41 Monastery man 43 “Give — rest!” 45 Baby's toy

47 OPEC, for one 51 Medicinal plant 52 TV, slangily

54 Tools with teeth 55 Vacuum's lack 56 Tehran's country 57 Clue

58 Journalist Nellie 59 “May It Be” singer

DOWN

1 Filches 2 Oklahoma tribe 3 Ancient portico 4 Hayseed

5 New Orleans confection 6 Corn spike 7 Bracelet site 8 African bird 9 1960s dance

10 “Got it”

11 Pitch

16 Bump into

20 Pub order

23 Clothing protector 24 Discoverer's call

25 Place of prosperity 27 Airport screening org. 29 Music booster

30 Asian holiday

32 Sit-in, for one

34 Coffee substitute

37 NBC weekend show 39 Wild guess

42 Skewered entree 44 Clarinetist Shaw 45 Impetuous

46 Jai —

48 Rotate

49 Online auction site 50 Sultry Horne

53 Texas tea