SHEFFER CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Gearwheel tooth 4 Baby elephant

8 Bar bills

12 Coffee vessel 13 — about (circa) 14 Panache

15 Salty expanse

16 Chills and fever 17 — avis

18 Driver's aid 21 Superlative suffix 22 Inlet

23 Protractor measure 26 Actress Lucy

27 “See ya!”

30 Old salts

31 “The Bells” author 32 Edge

33 Sea, to Henri 34 Periodical, for short 35 Belt holders 36 Summer cooler 37 “Alice” waitress 38 Fortress on the Thames

45 Pearl Harbor site 46 Stage show 47 Docs' bloc

48 Alum

49 Give temporarily 50 Use a ray gun 51 Bygone jets

52 Talks nonstop 53 Before

DOWN

1 Point

2 Sandwich cookie 3 Chew (on) 4 Sandpaper type 5 Uneasy feeling 6 Lummox

7 Giveaway

8 Towel material

9 Jai —

10 Hoedown site 11 Unforeseen problem 19 Morays

20 Vichy water 23 $ dispenser 24 Scot's denial 25 Spike's warning 26 Journal

27 Buddy

28 Shrill bark

29 Type measures 31 Magnificent array

32 Benefit

34 Ruin the veneer 35 British insurer 36 Vendettas

37 Be on either side of 38 Raiments 39 Rowboat needs 40 “Huh?'

41 Dog bane 42 Stupor

43 Actor Epps 44 Scruff