EugENE SHEffER CROSSwORd

ACROSS

1 Donned

5 “Spring ahead”

hrs.

8 Banquet platform

12 Trojan War

hero

13 Presidential

nickname

14 Approximately

15 Fury

16 Bias

18 Precious stone

20 Came to

21 Soup cooker

22 “Alice” waitress

23 “Swell!”

26 Nursery stack

30 On in years

31 Distant

32 Marseilles

monarch

33 Journals

36 Bread and pasta,

slangily

38 Noshed

39 Prof ’s degree

40 Maine college

town

43 Using a rotary

phone

47 A type of musical

scale

49 Construction piece

50 Rue the run

51 Pen filler

52 Composer Bartok

53 Thy

54 Some coll. degrees

55 Remain

DOWN

1 City district

2 California town

3 Sitarist’s music

4 Off the hook

5 Failed to

6 Lose traction

7 Darjeeling, e.g.

8 ’50s singing style

9 Florence’s river

10 Author Dinesen

11 Only

17 Fancy party

19 Odometer start

22 Tall tree

23 Silent assent

24 Yale grad

25 Oklahoma city 26 “— Kapital”

27 Blunder

28 Filch

29 Bro’s kin

31 Charge

34 One on a tirade

35 Langston Hughes poem

36 Chinese tea

37 Improvises

39 Chooses

40 Singer Anita

41 Puerto —

42 Diamond Head locale

43 Actress Merrill

44 “Yeah, right”

45 “The Lion King” lion

46 Battleship color

48 Pen tip