The Mercury News

Sheffer Crossword

- by Eugene Sheffer

ACROSS

1 Throat clearer 5 Pinball boo-boo 9 Moment 12 Transcendi­ng (Pref.) 13 Distant

14 Weep

15 Key with a left pointing arrow 17 Khan title

18 Them

19 Chef’s garb 21 Smallest st. 22 Decorator’s theme 24 Bankrolls

27 Party bowlful 28 Donated

31 Mess up 32 Illustrati­ons

33 Spy novel org. 34 Boyfriend

36 Part of TGIF 37 Bartlett or Bosc 38 Grind the teeth 40 “Hello”

41 Soda shop item 43 Buck

47 401(k) alternativ­e 48 Hearth 51 “What’s up, —?” 52 Coffee shop array 53 The “I” in “The King and I”

54 Storm center 55 Plumbing problem 56 Clarinet insert

DOWN

1 Early pulpit 2 Warmth 3 Leave a good impression? 4 Creators 5 Reveille’s opposite

6 “— picture paints a thousand words, ...” 7 Fond du —, Wis. 8 Halloween candy 9 Capone’s nickname 10 Therefore 11 Greenish-blue 16 Lanka preceder 20 Glutton 22 Merriment 23 Makes up one’s mind 24 Charlotte’s creation 25 Exist 26 Hot-rodders’ contest 27 Raised platform 29 By way of 30 Listener 35 Italian article 37 Column 39 Horrible 40 Bound 41 Faction 42 Helen’s place 43 Dilbert’s place 44 Diane or Nathan 45 Dermatolog­y subject 46 Peruse 49 Rage 50 Geneticist’s letters

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