TODAY’S CROSSWORD

CLUES ACROSS

1. Winter melon 7. Solar energy particles (abbr.) 10. Requiring fewer resources 12. Nest 13. Name 14. Actress Vergara 15. Very near in space or time 16. Authorized program analysis report 17. Spoken in Vietnam 18. Brews 19. Drops 21. Last or greatest in an indefinitely large series 22. Congo capital 27. Soldier 28. Bronx Bomber 33. Argon 34. Open 36. Popular sandwich 37. Protect from danger 38. Goddess of spring 39. Large hole 40. Vegetarians wonÕt touch it 41. Actress Neal 44. Finger millet 45. Small waterfalls 48. Israeli city 49. Most gummy 50. NFL owner Snyder 51. Spindles

CLUES DOWN

1. Italian Lake 2. Cuckoos 3. Sound unit 4. DoctorsÕ group 5. The cutting part of a drill 6. A teamÕs best hurler 7. Couches 8. Muslim ruler 9. Round globular seed 10. A way to confine 11. Men wear it 12. Chinese province 14. Soup cracker 17. Expression of disappointment 18. West Chadic languages 20. Midway between south and southwest 23. An opal 24. Main artery 25. JuniorÕs father 26. Sierra Leone dialect 29. Cyrillic letter 30. Native American tribe 31. Passes 32. Most unnatural 35. Insecticide 36. Blatted 38. Actress Fox 40. Actresses Kate and Rooney 41. Outside 42. The habitat of wild animals 43. Days falling in the middle of the month 44. Radioactivity unit 45. Certified public accountant 46. Swiss river 47. Sino-Soviet block (abbr.)