CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Clothing, informally 5 Actor Kilmer

8 Modern taxi rival

12 Grad

13 Altar affirmative

14 “The Lion King” lioness 15 Turkish money

16 Kind of call

18 Parlor pieces

20 Buenos —

21 Decks in the ring 22 Candle count 23 Beethoven’s “Für — ” 26 Reunion attendees 30 “The Matrix” role

31 Web address

32 Spy org.

33 Nation

36 Doohickey

38 Ages and ages

39 Goat’s plaint

40 Sufficient 43 Cleared one’s throat 47 Favor-asker’s plea 49 Type of dancer

50 Mata —

51 Boom times

52 Corporate symbol 53 French 101 verb 54 Actress West

55 Ancient Dead Sea land

DOWN

1 Body powder 2 Hodgepodge 3 Mentor

4 Loud kisses

5 Bad habits

6 Big fusses 7 Baseball’s Gehrig 8 Loosens

9 Boxer Max 10 Otherwise

11 Light beams

17 Pasta sauce brand 19 Weeding tool

22 MSN rival

23 Env. insert

24 Zodiac cat

25 Debtor’s note

26 Weep

27 Here (Fr.)

28 Diarist Anais

29 Droop

31 Coffee vessel 34 Journalist Bly

35 Three- — sloth

36 Greek cross

37 Dicker over a price 39 Point-and-click gizmo 40 Rue the run

41 Castle defense

42 Kitten’s sound

43 Club in a Manilow song 44 Cobra feature

45 Waffle brand

46 Unhappy destiny 48 “Delicious!”