King Crossword

ACROSS

1 Wager

4 Queen of

Carthage

8 Grate

12 High card

13 Done with

14 Hertz rival

15 Gun lobby

org.

16 Pop choice 17 Lyra’s

brightest star 18 Helpers for July and August

21 Whatever

number

22 Tom Collins

liquor

23 Core

26 Longing

27 Sheep’s cry 30 Rapscallions 31 Greyhound

vehicle

32 Sharp tooth 33 Young seal 34 Wrigley

product

35 Power glitch 36 Baseball’s

Ripken 37 Decks in

the ring

38 Colorful backyard party lights 45 First victim 46 Mr.

Stravinsky 47 Tic-tac-toe

win

48 Temporary

calm

49 “Star Trek”

helmsman 50 German

conjunction 51 Director

Preminger 52 Robust

53 Ballot

marks

DOWN

1 Proscribes

2 Off-white

3 Squad

4 Museum

tour guide 5 Tower

material?

6 Sandwich

shop

7 Citrus fruits 8 Poe’s bird

9 Say it’s so

10 Billboard

11 Unpaid TV

ads (Abbr.) 19 Red Planet 20 Can metal 23 Trendy

24 Outback bird 25 PC program 26 “Tasty!”

27 Saloon

28 Director Lee 29 Candle

count

31 Predicting a stock market rally 32 Firecracker

part

34 Needlefish 35 “Amen to

that!”

36 Yo-Yo Ma’s

instrument 37 Small hill 38 — Alto 39 Border on 40 Hide

41 Water,

to Juan

42 Sauce

thickener 43 Zilch

44 Lays down

the lawn