Crossword

ACROSS 1 Met melody 5 “CSI” settings 9 Apply cream 12 Fender bender 13 Gumbo need 14 Mode lead-in 15 Instrument panel 17 Homer’s neighbor 18 Thread holders 19 “Tiny Alice” playwright

21 “Heavens!”

22 Spud

24 Green gem

27 Church seat

28 Ken or Barbie 31 Glamorous

Gardner

32 Shoe width

33 Teeny

34 Baseball glove 36 British “Inc.”

37 — B’rith

38 Soil

40 Opposite of nyet 41 “Yippee!”

43 Vile

47 Ghostly

greeting

48 Music group at a New Year’s Eve party

51 Wall St. debut 52 Jacob’s twin

53 Author Ferber 54 “A mouse!”

55 Peel

56 Optimistic DOWN 1 Tosses in 2 Harvest

3 Not — many words

4 Not on the road 5 Novelist Anita

6 Alias letters 7 “It’s c-c-cold!” 8 Nasser’s successor 9 “The Da Vinci Code” author

10 Out of the storm 11 Ordered

16 Journalist Nellie 20 Started

22 Pearly whites

23 Dumbstruck

24 Bread spread

25 Bird (pref.)

26 Appointment

tracker

27 Hide

29 Meadow

30 Tiki bar necklace 35 Eastern path

37 Sweeney Todd,

for one

39 Actress Winona 40 Female hare

41 Theater award 42 Aspiration

43 Gulf War missile 44 Pedestal part

45 Hostels

46 Crucial time

49 “— was saying ...” 50 Indian bread