Crossword
ACROSS
1 Dogpatch creator 5 Detail, briefly 9 “Keep it down!” 12 Pitcher Hershiser 13 Blue shade 14 Brit’s restroom 15 Managua’s nation
17 Have debts
18 Not as knotty 19 Carried on
21 Boob tube
22 Deadly virus
24 Swinging joints? 27 Past
28 Related
31 I love (Lat.)
32 Caustic
solution
33 — tizzy
34 Matador’s foe 36 Earth Day mo. 37 Superior,
for one
38 Plot surprise 40 “Let It —”
41 Was able to
43 “Tender Mercies” star Robert
47 Director Lee
48 Jakarta’s nation 51 Depot (abbr.) 52 Port of Algeria 53 Felonious
flights
54 Fa follower
55 Catches
some rays
56 Espy
DOWN
1 Scoop holder 2 Met solo 3 Chest muscles, briefly 4 Braids
5 Luminary 6 Wooden pin 7 Vichy water 8 Mild cigar 9 Bratislava’s nation
10 Inventor Elias 11 Tackled weeds 16 Speed (up) 20 — carte
22 Cairo’s nation 23 Afrikaner
24 Chapeau
25 “As I see it,”
to a texter
26 Lisbon’s
nation
27 Regrettably 29 Pen filler
30 Scot’s denial 35 Barn bird
37 Razes
39 Knucklehead 40 Chignon
41 Mama — Elliot 42 Aware of
43 Dresses in
44 Now, in a memo
45 Prom rental 46 Endure
49 Gun lobby org. 50 Author Brown