The Weekly Crossword
ACROSS
1. Leather band
6. Victor, briefly
11. Dried fruits
13. Black eye
14. Apartment, e.g.
15. Sell
16. Besides
17. Brainchild
19. Hog’s haven
20. Emphasizes
23. Wealthy
26. Tableland
30. Sky chief
31. Kind of eel
32. Sincere
33. Damage
36. Enjoy a spree
38. Stereo component
41. House
42. Stand-in, shortly
45. Grassland
47. Decide
50. Coves
51. Taunted
52. Movie elephant
53. Pushes
DOWN
1. Agile
2. Maple, e.g.
3. Undersized one
4. Carpenter insect
5. ____ soup
6. Deceive
7. Concealed
8. No ifs, ____, or buts
9. Dissolve
10. Hunter’s quarry
12. Piece
13. Tired
18. Bear’s abode
20. Medicinal lilies
21. Mowed
22. Puff away
23. Competent
24. Evergreen
25. Cold-weather ailment
27. Important age
28. Sink down
29. OK, to Popeye
31. Periodical, for short
33. Punches
34. Pirate’s drink
35. Build
37. Snapshot
38. During
39. List of foods
40. Inner hand
42. Just fair: hyph.
43. Consumed
44. Cots
46. Young society woman
48. In the know
49. Rowboat necessity