CRYP tIC CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Turnout at midmorning social event ( 10) 8 Ring for each top- ranked musical show ( 5) 9 Tools for snagging Greek fruit ( 8) 10 Guess I’m entering ritzy residence ( 8) 11 Street with a stop signal watched steadily ( 6) 14 Wear out part of a car (4) 15 In one stint, altered objectives ( 10) 18 Officer changed tune in tale ( 10) 19 Instrument aboard jumbo Boeing (4) 21 State question in culinary phrase ( 6) 23 All alone in the wee hours in one piece of turf ( 8) 25 Central American country adopting alternative, broad view ( 8) 26 Fire applied to collection of important books ( 5) 27 A reluctant stirring of octopus arms ( 10)

DOWN

1 Scares a Liberal with weapons ( 6) 2 Playing in tenth gig, getting closer ( 10) 3 Tidy article caught in mesh (4) 4 Craving a piece of pie, daintily small ( 8) 5 Readily understood cold Shakespearean king ( 5) 6 Cinquefoil plant Eliot cultivated ( 10) 7 Tree fern moved with no cost to the tenant (4- 4) 12 Diana’s taking care of swelling ( 10) 13 L. L. Bean isn’t pitching sports equipment ( 6,4) 16 Going around operating room with a sharp edge ( 8) 17 Police watch second meal to go ( 8) 20 Wielder of a blade damaged relics ( 6) 22 Saw “Advertising Age” ( 5) 24 M. Chagall’s stuff returned (4)