CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Today’s puzzle solutions can be found on the TV page.

ACROSS

1 Just a taste 4 Weight allowance

8 Bill

11 Some poems 13 Verve

14 Mrs. Peron 15 Having greater

net worth 17 Bird’s beak 18 Lampoon 19 Film cowboy

Gene — 21 Once called 22 Movie studio 23 Vampire’s

trademark 26 Chirped 29 Rainbow 30 Downy fungi 31 Payable now 33 Catchall abbr. 34 Endow 35 Window part 36 Annually 38 One with

potential 39 Sock end 40 “Bien”

opposite 41 Pageant winner 44 It turns litmus

blue

48 HBO

alternative 49 Extremely

stressful 52 Wyo. neighbor 53 Nobleman 54 Wet thoroughly 55 Stew vessel 56 Pigments 57 Force open

DOWN

1 Plants crops 2 Bright thought 3 Marshy material 4 Giggle (hyph.) 5 Husband of Fatima 6 Funny Charlotte — 7 Furious 8 Nomad’s need 9 Assert 10 Newborn 12 Open-back

shoes

16 Three, in

Toledo 20 Ref kin

22 Lay down

cards 23 Interjection of mild disgust 24 Showy and

pretentious 25 Pleasant 26 Small keg 27 Mild Dutch

cheese 28 Desert sight 30 Bedroom

slipper 32 Constantly, to

Poe

34 Faced on 35 Lively

dances 37 Ingested 38 Serene 40 Thrashes 41 Small swab

(hyph.) 42 Take apart 43 “L’—, c’est

moi” 45 Upon 46 Fact fudger 47 Stomach

turning 50 Narrow beam of light

51 Is, for them