Crossword

3/22 Solution time: 24 mins.

ACROSS

1 Long for 5 Denny’s rival 9 Chop 12 Miles away 13 Mediocre 14 Playwright Levin

15 Old Testament book 17 Huge 18 Small changes 19 Nutmeg or cinnamon 21 “Monopoly” square

22 Reckon

24 Give up

27 — Aviv

28 Battery fluid 31 Mouths (Lat.) 32 — bind

33 Alien craft

34 Rhett’s last

word

36 Convent

manager

37 “Hey!”

38 World record? 40 Infinitive part 41 Japanese

fish dish

43 Punctual

47 Business mag 48 Gladiator played by Kirk Douglas

51 Actress Lucy 52 Madcap

53 Hardy heroine 54 USN officers 55 Fearsome dino 56 “Beetle

Bailey” dog

DOWN

1 Mr. Disney 2 Not many 3 Cathedral area 4 ER prioritization 5 Egyptian deity

6 Ad —

7 Buckeyes’ sch.

8 Sheriff’s group 9 Tropical flower 10 Rocker Clapton 11 Carry on

16 Ring decision 20 Unpaid TV ad 22 Biological

group

23 — Bator

24 Massachusetts

cape

25 Mound stat

26 Syria’s capital 27 Funny Fey

29 Conditions

30 Speck

35 Ultimate

37 Spud

39 Composer Franz 40 Potent stick

41 Ledge

42 Squad

43 African antelope 44 “Rhyme Pays”

rapper

45 Has to

46 Canadian gas

brand

49 Standard

50 Chemical suffix