Thomas Joseph Crossword

ACROSS 1 Field enclosure

6 Sneaker features

11 Even a little

12 Precise

13 High-muck-a-muck 14 Towel material

15 Weeps noisily

17 Groom’s wear

18 Independent sort

22 Sweeping story

23 Skewed views

27 Car sticker

29 “Coming up next” ad 30 Short sock

32 Go under

33 Admire

35 Touch lightly

38 Cooped (up)

39 City on the Mohawk

River

41 Luminous glows

45 Back tooth

46 Old car part

47 Change, as the

Constitution

48 Singer Rogers

DOWN

1 Summer cooler

2 Seventh Greek letter 3 Arrest 4 Narrow escape

5 Arm joint

6 Say inadvertently

7 Woodsman’s tool

8 Supermarket aid

9 Beige

10 River of Hades

16 Move up and down 18 Helen’s mother

19 Ready for business 20 Shaving mishap

21 Years and years from

now 24 Shower need

25 Radiate

26 Song for one

28 Spotted cat

31 Sock part

34 Aptitude

35 Mountain lion

36 Physics bit

37 Mosaic piece

40 Soup buy

42 Sprinted

43 Columnist Landers 44 Cloud setting

ACROSS 1 Takes care of the final

details

7 Told tales

11 Playwright Eugene 12 Not busy

13 Doorway hanging

15 Bona fide

16 Saloon quaff

18 Word of action

21 Edges

22 Kitchen gadgets

24 Phone download 25 Brooks of film

26 Director Spike

27 Tie up

29 Chess win

30 Did a textile job

31 Printed matter

32 Flexible

34 Absolutely sure

40 Pearl Harbor setting 41 Origin

42 Snare

43 Quartet plus trio

DOWN

1 Unruly crowd

2 Low digit

3 Stew sphere

4 Moves like a crab 5 Peptic problem

6 Cord end

7 Refuse

8 Writer Tarbell

9 Yale rooter

10 Bear’s lair

14 Competitor

16 Human, for one

17 Unoccupied

19 Take it easy

20 Quarterback Favre 21 Sewer dweller

22 Apiece 23 Notice

25 Army healer 28 Delayed

29 Get together 31 Painful spasm 33 Thomas Hardy

heroine

34 Morse bit

35 Lobed organ 36 Cry of insight 37 Museum focus 38 Drink cubes 39 Rink material