SHEFFER CROSSWORD L.A TIMES CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Fibs

5 Boast

9 “For shame!”

12 Mr. Guinness

13 Suffix for million

14 Away from WSW 15 Calligrapher's need 17 Yule quaff

18 Mayberry boy

19 Cat calls?

21 Some Pacific salmons 24 Fem. counterpart 25 Autobahn auto 26 Unbreakable

30 Chaps

31 Photoshop maker 32 World Cup cheer 33 Trojan War hero 35 Garbage barge

36 Fine

37 Bakery array

38 Pasted together 40 Fall (over)

42 — Angeles

43 Cub Scout leader 48 Pub order

49 “Law & Order: SVU” actor

50 TV trophy

51 Pas' mates

52 “— your chance!” 53 Nitwit

DOWN

1 Napkin's place 2 — -de-France 3 Poetic dusk 4 Instruct

5 Island near Java 6 Carousel, for one 7 “Right you —!” 8 Relevant 9 Coffee-break time 10 Winter blanket 11 Beer barrels 16 Chances, for short 20 Computer key 21 Prolonged sleep

22 Oil cartel

23 Chicken coops

24 Unruly groups 26 Without acting

27 Caviar

28 Medicinal plant 29 Morning droplets 31 Genie's master 34 Mamie's man

35 Like most pretzels

37 Biz bigwig

38 Glitz partner

39 “Damn Yankees” vamp

40 Recognized

41 911 responders 44 Author Umberto

45 Med. plan

46 Hirohito's title (Abbr.) 47 Reuben bread