THOMAS JOSEPH CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 With skill

5 London lockup

9 Floorboard sound

11 Painter Matisse

12 Heat setting

13 Sports setting

14 Purpose

15 Scintillate

17 Straw hat

19 Auditor’s org.

20 Snide look

21 Coral island

22 Rank above maj. 24 Touch lightly

26 Bolt from Jamaica 29 Tennis star Shriver 30 More svelte

32 Pool patron

34 Ingenuous cry

35 Rolling Stones song 36 Bridge utterance 38 Renter’s paper

39 Pago Pago setting 40 Clutter

41 Turn down

DOWN 1 High points

2 Precipices

3 Intro 4 Orange tuber 5 Start of an idea 6 Lack of vitality 7 Cantankerous 8 Tale tellers 10 11 Locks Fate 16 Sleuth Poirot 18 Dissolve 21 Chowder chunk 23 Brother of Isis 24 “Parks and Recreation” town 25 Female friends, to Fernando 27 “Count me in!” 28 “Taken” star 29 Sacred song 30 Hook’s helper 31 Utter over 33 Overlook 37 Small tablet

ACROSS

1 Christmas travelers

5 Modify

10 Woeful cry

11 Mini burger

12 Diatribe

13 Disregard

14 Many a Harpo Marx

joke

16 Container in an

armored car

20 Walks proudly

23 Low digit

24 Cat’s quarry

25 Devilfish

27 Ornate vase

28 Sore

29 Jazz standard of 1917 32 Message-leaving

series

36 Improvise

39 Long car

40 Sci-fi threat

41 Inkling

42 Slow-witted

43 Mint product

DOWN

1 Earth neighbor 2 Jai—

3 Street group 4 Panama, for one

5 Pond growth

6 Squalid

7 Brouhaha

8 For each

9 Uno plus due

11 Zodiac dozen

15 Carryall

17 Role for Craig

18 Pot starter

19 Bike part

20 Obscene material 21 Spelling on TV 22 Ladder step

25 Nasty

26 Perfectly

behaved

28 Easy gaits

30 Some swords 31 German river

33 Shore eroder 34 Church reply 35 Blame recipient 36 Rage

37 Hearty quaff 38 Family