EUgeNe sheffer Crossword

ACROSS 1 Soother

5 Hill dweller

8 Flightless birds

12 Duel tool

13 “The Crying

Game” actor

14 Merit badge

holder

15 Starring role

16 Nautical

18 Home of St.

Francis

20 Sports venues

21 Kid’s plea

23 Hanoi holiday

24 Tenderizing

sauce

28 Stallion’s mate

31 “Life — cabaret

...”

32 Fear greatly

34 Charged bit

35 “Forrest —”

37 Singer Faithfull

39 Luau bowlful

41 Swizzle

42 Actress Plummer

45 Offered clues

49 Style of Mexican music

51 Rice-shaped pasta

52 Diminutive suffix

53 Haw preceder

54 Entice

55 Lip

56 Blunder

57 Beloved

DOWN

1 Composer Bartok

2 Tarzan’s clique

3 Meadows

4 Famed Florentine family

5 How lovers may stroll

6 PBS funder

7 Skater Lipinski

8 Honor

9 Assert

10 Sch. at West Point

11 Spike Lee’s “— Gotta

Have It”

17 NYC subway line

19 Hourglass fill

22 Concepts

24 Russian jet 25 Tempe sch.

26 Bulwarks

27 More coarse

29 Harry Potter pal

30 Away from WSW

33 503, in old Rome

36 Shetlands, e.g.

38 Golf ’s Palmer

40 Journalist Tarbell

42 Iowa city

43 — Hari

44 Sore spot

46 Verifiable

47 Poet Pound

48 Active sort

50 Grammy-winning

“Fight for You” singer