CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Sharing a secret (two words)

5 Scrooge’s cry

8 Ready a patient 12 Stocking color

13 “Surfin’ ___”

14 Hither

15 Leg bender

16 Car efficiency stat 17 Monsoon feature

18 Sour cream concoction 20 Spurred

22 Blouse size

25 Special friend 26 Disentangle

27 Diners’ requests

30 Great anger

31 Achieved

32 Have snack

34 Author Capote

37 Soup spoon 39 Germinated grain 40 Announcer Johnny 41 Apostles’ teaching 44 Links gp.

45 “___ Know” (two words) 46 Altar vow (two words) 48 NBA center O’Neal 52 Equipment

53 Cain’s mother

54 Clark or the “Daily Planet” 55 Unknown amount 56 Lower the lights 57 Commentator Rooney

DOWN

1 Quill stainer 2 Monk’s counterpart 3 Wordsworth work 4 Sewing item 5 Jostle

6 Cleo’s snake 7 Author H. Rider ___ 8 Sentence part 9 Enjoy Dickens

10 A Great Lake 11 Remain undecided 19 Sickly

21 Antique

22 ___ Lanka

23 Store or shop

24 Say confidently 25 Pin’s end 28 Scarlets and crimsons 29 Boutique event 31 Dawdled 33 Gymnast’s high score 35 Referee’s kin 36 Hollywood’s West 37 Tree trunk 38 Nome’s state 41 Stifles

42 Parkay product 46 Bang 44 Limerick, e.g. 47 506, to Caesar 49 Mature pullet 50 Common conjunction 51 Amount (abbreviation)