Today’s Crossword:

CLUES ACROSS

1. Winter melon

7. Solar energy particles (abbr.)

10. Requiring fewer resources

12. Nest

13. Name

14. Actress Vergara

15. Very near in space or time

16. Authorized program analysis report

17. Spoken in Vietnam

18. Brews

19. Drops

21. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series

22. Congo capital

27. Soldier

28. Bronx Bomber

33. Argon

34. Open

36. Popular sandwich

37. Protect from danger

38. Goddess of spring

39. Large hole

40. Vegetarians won’t touch it

41. Actress Neal

44. Finger millet

45. Small waterfalls

48. Israeli city

49. Most gummy

50. NFL owner Snyder

51. Spindles

CLUES DOWN

1. Italian Lake

2. Cuckoos

3. Sound unit

4. Doctors’ group

5. The cutting part of a drill

6. A team’s best hurler

7. Couches

8. Muslim ruler

9. Round globular seed

10. A way to confine

11. Men wear it

12. Chinese province

14. Soup cracker

17. Expression of disappointment

18. West Chadic languages

20. Midway between south and southwest

23. An opal

24. Main artery

25. Junior’s father

26. Sierra Leone dialect

29. Cyrillic letter

30. Native American tribe

31. Passes

32. Most unnatural

35. Insecticide

36. Blatted

38. Actress Fox

40. Actresses Kate and Rooney

41. Outside

42. The habitat of wild animals

43. Days falling in the middle of the month

44. Radioactivity unit

45. Certified public accountant

46. Swiss river

47. Sino-soviet block (abbr.)