Crossword
ACROSS
1 Polite query 5 Tummy muscles 8 Melville captain 12 Fragrant flower 14 Use a fruit knife 15 Elephant’s ancestor 16 “Three Sisters” sister 17 Whatever 18 007 portrayer Timothy
20 Jets and Sharks 23 Ringlet
24 Regrettably
25 Team symbols 28 Young dog
29 Report card
data
30 Chow down
32 Stonework
34 Grotto
35 — -bitty
36 Like wine barrels 37 Pampas
horseman
40 Ref
41 Hide in the
bushes
42 Sports car with
a trident logo
47 “— do for now” 48 Preprandial
drink
49 Audio equipment brand
50 Composer Rorem 51 Salty septet
DOWN
1 “Ben-Hur” studio 2 Bond rating 3 Decade parts (abbr.) 4 Luggage attachments
5 Tennis star Murray
6 Life story
7 Ohio port
8 Lunar program 9 Sentry’s cry
10 Jason’s ship
11 Noggin
13 Billions of years 19 Story lines
20 Opening
21 Grad
22 Wine valley
23 Tote
25 Like a father-son
talk, perhaps
26 Ship wood
27 Rescue
29 Closet invader 31 Sawbuck
33 Reaping tool
34 Mid-calf pants 36 Biblical grain
measure 37 Smooth-talking 38 Car
39 Web addresses 40 Secondhand
43 Mimic
44 Noshed
45 Spanish aunt 46 Conditions