CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Balls of cotton 5. Immerse briefly 8. Compete in a freestyle

12. Got down

13. Roaring Twenties, e.g. words. the

14. know Baseball’s doesn’t It A: Boggs

15. Back part

16. Bouquets

18. Bird with a pouch

20. Regions

21. Wield

22. Sugarcane Q: product

23. Consent

26. Rubdown

30. Direction

31. Hawaiian greeting

33. Dedicated to

34. Facial fringe

36. Croc’s kin

38. Said yes

39. Coming-out girl

40. Bubbly drinks

43. Cause turmoil in

47. Upset

49. Nothing but

50. Whiten

51. Poke resident

52. Overhead

53. Coasted

54. Foreign agent

55. Dummy

DOWN

1. Twist 2. Away from the wind 3. Channel changer 4. Band of color 5. Rot 6. Golf-bag item 7. Normal 8. Hordes 9. Minimum ____

10. Theory

11. Jumble

17. Bratwursts and wieners

19. Most transparent

22. Hooray!

23. Fear

24. Cheery

25. “The Catcher in the ____”

26. Cut the lawn

27. Toward the stern

28. Muck

29. Be human

32. Many

35. Proclaimed noisily

37. Where some students study

39. Drab

40. Drenches

41. Oblong

42. Sandwich mart

43. Plumber’s concern

44. Golden-rule word

45. Plunk

46. Sort

48. Prosperous periods