King Crossword

ACROSS 1 Historic times 5 Wd. modifier 8 Soldiers

in gray

12 Face-covering

nursery game

14 “— a Kick

Out of You” 15 Bitterness

16 Taj Mahal city 17 Demure

18 Tea variety 20 Cougars

23 In pain 24 High-five

sound 25 Region of southwest France 28 Blackbird 29 Inventor

Nikola 30 “— Town” 32 Hopkins of

“Hannibal” 34 Pyramid,

maybe 35 Droop 36 Island

porch

40 41 37 Speck “Garfield”“Withluck” any dog 42 Hoggishness 47 Fasting period 48 U-235 and U-238 49 — and crafts 50 LPs’ successors 51 October birthstone

DOWN 1 Clean air org. 2 Fun and

games

3 — Lingus

4 Winter head

warmer

5 “— Named

Sue”

6 Mafia boss

7 With great

delight

8 Theater

district

9 Waffle brand 10 Swiss capital 11 Men-only 13 Old Testament book 19 Killer whale 20 Unpaid TV ad 21 Arm bone

22 Primary 23 — a clue (is naive) 25 Re earth science 26 Lunch hour 27 Arizona tribe 29 Not that

31 Hitter’s stat 33 Chirps 34 Body art 36 Politico

Trent — 37 Spanish

greeting 38 River to

the Baltic 39 Ale measure 40 Pairs 43 Leary’s drug 44 Antonym (Abbr.) 45 PBS funder 46 Designer monogram