Crossword

ACROSS

1 Greek consonant 4 Cold War weapon 8 2000 election scrap

12 Fool

13 Law office worker, for short 14 “Les Miserables” author 15 Accelerator 17 Quite excited 18 Tidy (up)

19 Altar affirmative 21 Vanna’s cohort 22 Flame from a burner 26 Impersonator 29 Whatever amount 30 Timetable abbr. 31 “American —” 32 Golfer Ernie 33 Bivouac structure 34 Fresh 35 Individual 36 Emanations

37 Big talker 39 Morsel 40 Playwright Levin 41 Strong points 45 Not up and about

48 1944 Boyer/ Bergman film 50 Burden 51 Otherwise

52 Exist

53 Wrong

54 God, in Guadalajara 55 Doo-wop syllable

DOWN

1 Labels 2 Pronto 3 Beatles’ “Back in the —” 4 Poison antidote, maybe

5 West Point newbie 6 Top supporter 7 Slanders 8 Utter disorder 9 Embrace

10 Past

11 Pooch 16 Student 20 Rotation duration 23 Scoff 24 Sicilian spouter 25 Makes lace 26 Chinese dynasty 27 Notion 28 Neatens the lawn 29 Microbrewery product 32 Betrothed 33 Rwandan tribe 35 Scull tool 36 Grocery areas 38 Hen

39 — profundo 42 “Zounds!” 43 From one end to t’other 44 Branch 45 Carte lead-in 46 Acknowledge applause 47 Listener 49 Foreman foe