QUICK CROSSWORD

Across

1 Edie Brickell’s “In” this? (4)

3 Wildly excited (8) 9 ___-Jaffa, Israel (3,4) 10 Welsh-bred dog (5) 11 What penitents in confessionals do (5) 12 Winter Olympics powerhouse (6) 14 Spay (6) 16 Withdraw (3,3) 19 Yuletide quaff (6) 21 Totally relish (3,2) 24 Zoo favorite (5) 25 Zero charge particle (7) 26 Exaggerate one’s acting (8) 27 Wooden strip (4)

Down

1 Signifies (8) 2 Spanish diacritical mark (5) 4 Seize and carry away (6) 5 Substance in an oyster (5) 6 Sub weapon (7) 7 Baby bed (4) 8 Slender (6) 13 Words to a cabbie (4,2,2) 15 Stay current, computerwise (7) 17 Traffic tragedy (6) 18 “Raid on Entebbe” setting (6)

20 W.E.B. Du Bois was among its founders (5)

22 You should worry if you’re in it (5) 23 Vaudeville shtick (4)

VERY EASY

EASY

MEDIUM