QUICK CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Vegas numbers 5 Murmur 8 Moby Dick pursuer 12 Soprano — Te Kanawa 13 Coll. credits 14 Affliction 15 Dune material 16 Eagerness 18 Take it slow (2 wds.) 20 Bear and Berra 21 PIN prompter 22 — — budget 23 Courage 26 Noon 29 Reason to cram 30 Lox locale 31 Cookie-selling org. 33 Always, to Byron 34 Quite a few 35 Shaded 36 Fragrant trees 38 Bulletin — 39 Poetic piece 40 Sodom escapee 41 Aluminum company 44 Heaps 47 Fuel source (2 wds.) 49 Persia, now 51 Puncture 52 Ply a needle 53 Tower town 54 TV statuette 55 Mao — -tung 56 Ooze DOWN

1 Approvals 2 Slanted line (abbr.) 3 Early 007 foe (2 wds.) 4 Pistol, e.g. 5 Deep cleft 6 Paris hub 7 Explorer — Johnson 8 In Europe, say 9 Reagan Cabinet

member 10 Not pro 11 High-ranking Turks 17 Singer — Lauper 19 Court fig. 22 Needing a shampoo 23 Giggler’s syllable 24 Corp. VIP 25 River past Bern 26 Part of YMCA 27 Water, in Baja 28 North Sea feeder 30 Risk it 32 Arithmetic verb 34 Sir’s mate 35 Hawkeye’s colleague (2 wds.) 37 “Tom —”

(Kingston Trio tune) 38 Slangy physique 40 Lerner’s partner 41 Tooth problem 42 Weaver’s frame 43 Tranquil 44 Dollar bills 45 A Great Lake 46 Letter encl. 48 Is, to Fritz 50 40 winks

Answer to Previous Puzzle

Saturday’s Jumble: Duped, Cough, Impale, Splash. When George Burns turned 100, 99 was this — His old age.