EUGENE SHEFFER CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Dogpatch creator

5 Lip soother

9 Deep hole

12 Antioxidant

berry

13 Curved molding

14 Altar promise

15 Knitter’s stitches

17 Paris appellation

18 Large soup dish

19 Bracelet site

21 ICU worker

22 Ruminates

24 Scrooge cries

27 Cacophony

28 To boot

31 In the style of

32 Busy insect

33 Mineral suffix

34 Pickling herb

36 Classic car

37 Tater

38 Enthusiast

40 Qt. fraction

41 Panorama

43 Wrapped garment

47 Pac. counterpart

48 Sofa protector

51 Floral ring

52 Hibernia

53 Chaste

54 Hirohito’s title (Abbr.)

55 Pencil filler

56 Urban haze

DOWN

1 Group of actors

2 Rights advocacy org.

3 Two of a kind

4 Kilted musicians

5 German city

6 Previously

7 Allow

8 Mini-plateaus

9 Fire

10 Pedestal occupant

11 Heavy reading?

16 Understanding

20 PBS funder

22 Excavated

23 “Do — others ...”

24 Abysmal

25 Boxing legend

26 Lacy undergarment

27 Mend a sock

29 R-V link

30 British ref. work

35 Illuminated

37 Razor sharpeners

39 Painter’s stand

40 Lobbying gp.

41 Low-lying area

42 Detail

43 Raced

44 Egg

45 Sleuth Wolfe

46 Actor Kinnear

49 Fib

50 A Gershwin brother