CROSSWORD

WORLD LEADERS

ACROSS

1 Chinese statuary stone 5 Hairdos like Disco Stu’s

10 Scout uniform part 14 Showy perennial 15 Soup-eater’s impolite sound 16 Surface statistic 17 License plate frame pronoun 18 Worker with big cats 19 Slimming-down regimen 20 Tunnel-digging bug 21 Housefly’s sight organ 23 Family-friendly workplace perk 25 Salad with romaine lettuce 26 Betsy of flag fame 27 Oktoberfest vessel 29 Contest payoff 31 Morbid sort 32 Typical Nickelodeon fan 35 Not for the prudish 36 Hang like a Fu Manchu 37 Heart of the Inca empire

38 Have unsettled accounts

39 Lego unit 40 Made hound sounds

41 Tank on an exam 42 Reason to pack a bag

43 Like watches with hands

46 Held protectively 49 Miracle remedy 52 Rail splitter’s tool 53 Greedy child’s cry 54 Collective bargaining side 55 Printer’s blue 56 State firmly 57 Fruit vendor’s structure 58 Pound with snowballs 59 Fodder for Colbert monologues 60 Hefty volumes 61 Creative pursuits

DOWN

1 Anti-infidel struggle

2 Rock concert venue

3 Cajun side dish 4 Section of winding road 5 Wealthy couple on the Titanic 6 Bunsen burner output

7 Beef cut above the round

8 Snack Pack cookie 9 Neaten, as with new paint 10 Bum out 11 Celestial ram 12 “I gotta split!” 13 Hypercritical sort 21 Beer buy 22 Shingle securer 24 Warm and comfortable 27 Finger-inthe-socket consequence 28 Captured, in chess 29 MLB or NBA player 30 Cold and damp 31 The Joker’s facial expression 32 Vital team member 33 Boiling-mad feeling 34 Defective explosive 36 Narcs’ raid 37 Proved profitable 39 United voting group 40 Unmannerly 32-Across 41 Red-eye passengers 42 Faddists’ concerns 43 Jordan’s capital 44 Trusting to a fault 45 1973 resigner Spiro 46 Genetic duplicate 47 Praise to the heavens

48 Auto body blemishes 50 Suffix with “here,” in legalese 51 Hemsworth of “The Hunger Games”

55 IRS forms expert

© Andrews McMeel 11/12