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