Crossword

ACROSS

1 Piquant taste 5 Winter ailment 8 Painter Chagall 12 Thought 13 Arctic bird 14 Met melody 15 Slaughter 17 Vend

18 Type squares 19 Doctor’s due 20 Any of 150 in the Bible

21 Doorstep item 22 Lemon meringue,

e.g.

23 Sacrifice site 26 Spa fixture

30 The Red and the

Black 31 Formal wear 32 Start a garden 33 Popular place to socialize 35 Heredity factors

36 Pick a target 37 Existed 38 Animal 41 Purse 42 Mauna — 45 Not pizzicato 46 “Manon” composer 48 Opposed 49 Pismire 50 Unaccompanied 51 For fear that 52 Fourth letter 53 Recipe meas.

DOWN

1 Fourth dimension 2 Leading man? 3 Untouchable Eliot 4 Petrol 5 Aspect 6 Entice 7 Guitar’s cousin 8 Some physiotherapists 9 Vicinity 10 Small stream 11 At peace 16 Somewhere out there 20 Snapshot 21 Chief who befriended the Pilgrims 22 Latin for “peace” 23 Fire residue 24 Zodiac cat

25 Tit for —

26 Stick out 27 Buddhist sect 28 Wye follower 29 Egos’ counterparts 31 Male turkey 34 Fruit stone 35 Jokes 37 Squander 38 False god

39 Sea eagle 40 Performances 41 Poison

42 Door opener 43 Morays, e.g.

44 On

46 Crazy 47 Superlative suffix