CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Calls in a loud voice 6 Commonplace 11 Minor partner 12 Squirm

13 Sushi bar selection

14 Determine value 15 Landscape

16 -- du jour 17 Jackrabbit 18 Nonsense!

19 Was, to Ovid 23 Plumbing problem

25 Artifice

26 Knock politely 29 Kind of reading 32 Actress -- Farrow 33 Raw metal 34 Long-answer exam

35 Near and dear friend

36 Calendar row 38 Dancer -- Astaire 40 Vine valley 41 Play on words 42 Hence

46 Tall tale 48 Farewell

49 Ski lodge type (hyph.)

52 Avoids capture 53 Small lizards 54 Up-to-date 55 Gather together 56 Additional

DOWN

1 New Mexico’s flower 2 Calculator key 3 Big name in trains 4 Unhurried gait 5 Herr, in Madras 6 Pliny’s bear 7 Wimple wearer 8 Sporty truck 9 Happy sighs 10 Brown of renown 11 Rib

12 Kelly or Whitman

16 Ridicules (2 wds.) 18 Knocks 20 Haunches 21 Great Wall locale 22 Bluish-green 24 Flight dir. 26 Municipality 27 Sphere of interest 28 Chirp

30 Accrue interest 31 Tint

37 Sealskin canoes 39 Take away from the total

41 Veep’s superior 43 Bill tack-on 44 -- Davis of “The Fly”

45 Remove from office

47 Andy’s friend 48 Haley or Trebek 49 Muslim honorific

50 Not masc. 51 Electronics mfr. 52 Before, in verse