SHEFFER CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Hawaiian island 5 Pen tip 8 Pop 12 Hunger symptom 13 Eggs 14 “Once — a time ...” 15 Assume, as a burden 17 Predicament 18 Sailor's assent 19 “Reckon so” 21 Stag 24 Luminary 25 Writer Ephron 26 Act conspicuously 30 “Rocks” 31 Reek 32 6 on a phone 33 Footwear storage unit 35 Proscribes 36 Active person 37 Skeleton components 38 Bacon pieces 41 Dazzle 42 Debtors' notes 43 Workers' jargon 48 Jules Verne captain 49 “A mouse!” 50 Nantes notion 51 “NFL Live” channel 52 Coloring agent 53 Whirlpool

DOWN 1 AWOL pursuers 2 Satisfied sigh 3 Dos preceder 4 Big lizard 5 Protuberance 6 “— had it!” 7 Male singing voice 8 Outlying area 9 Mayberry moppet 10 Dresses in 11 &&&& 16 Caustic solution 20 Stare stupidly 21 Blackbirds 22 Scottish lake 23 Black-and-white cookie 24 Less outgoing 26 Emphasized 27 Muscat's land 28 Novelist Rice 29 Throw 31 Halt 34 Prolific inventor 35 Pasta shape 37 Jazzy style 38 Trig function 39 Low digits 40 Kind of roast 41 Stirred 44 “Psst!” 45 Do sums 46 Started 47 Crucial