The Weekly Crossword

CLUES ACROSS

1. Political action committee

4. Where sauces cook

8. Type of horse

10. Heavy sword (Brit.)

11. __ Nui, Easter Island

12. A type of burner

13. Spanish island

15. Rapid alteration of a musical note

16. Where priests work

17. Most impoverished

18. Tom Petty’s band

21. Luke’s mentor __-Wan

22. No longer is

23. Mandela’s party

24. Legislator (abbr.)

25. A type of “zebra”

26. The common gibbon

27. American icon

34. Hunting expeditions

35. What a princess wears

36. Switched gears

37. Protege to Freya (Norse myth.)

38. Serves

39. Darken

40. Fencing swords

41. Middle English letter

42. Go slowly

43. A type of flute

CLUES DOWN

1. One who is rejected

2. Suitable for crops

3. Per __, each

4. Indulges

5. Preoccupy

6. NIN frontman Reznor

7. Posted

9. Infamous Ukraine village

10. Bizarre

12. One who loves to read

14. The products of human creativity

15. Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand

17. Famed Chinese American architect

19. These can be used to burn trash

20. Corpuscle count (abbr.)

23. Pokes holes in

24. Peter’s last name

25. Offered as a prize

26. French river

27. Young woman

28. A pot has one

29. Of the ears

30. Full of parasites

31. Dole out incrementally

32. Citrus fruit

33. Hearty

34. External form

36. Turn violently