THOMAS JOSEPH CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1 Veep Agnew

6 Lingerie items

10 Ready for bed

11 Oyster product

12 Without aid

13 Kitchen fixture

14 Circus sight

15 Dipping dish

16 Wedding

words

17 Quick taste

18 So far

19 Brain layers

22 Very bright

23 Woodwind

part

26 Whirlpools

29 Used to be

32 Beam of light

33 Touch lightly

34 Response to a

joke

36 App makeup

37 Turning point

38 Neigh sayer

39 Kagan of the Supreme Court

40 Door sign

41 Turn down

42 Buttes’ kin

DOWN

1 Unmoving

2 Kept adding

3 Magnetite, e.g.

4 Monthly bill

5 Keats work

6 Noggin

7 Lustful

8 Have a spat

9 Wintry weather

11 Investment choice

15 Mend

17 Mexican miss 20 “Mazel —!”

21 Spot

24 Sends overseas

25 Salt lake of the Mideast

27 Scoundrel

28 Takes the wheel 29 Used a sponge

30 Sprightly

31 Middling card

35 Theater award

36 Volcano shape

38 Clothes line ACROSS 1 Neopagan practice

6 Cemetery spirit

11 Look forward to

12 Wake up

13 Compass point

14 Blundered

15 Intensify

17 Sit-up targets

19 Penguin’s cousin

20 “Holy smokes!”

23 Insurance workers

25 Stereo forerunner

26 Good long-term

investment

28 In the past

29 Melted-cheese

dish

30 Chiding sound

31 May honoree

32 D.C. VIP

33 Glade setting

35 Sparkler

38 Car parts 41 Homer work 42 Fancy neckwear 43 Tiny 44 Oxen connectors DOWN 1 Pale 2 — Jima 3 Heavy paper

4 Refer to

5 Essentially

6 Like Zeus and Ares

7 Saddle part

8 “— Town”

9 Try out

10 Was ahead

16 Strongly advocate

17 Secret lingo

18 Rural sights

20 Noted 1969 event

21 When expected 22 Roused from slumber

24 Lamb’s mother

25 High pt.

27 Eventually

31 Like blue cheese

33 Accomplishment

34 Mediocre

35 Triangular sail

36 Bulldog backer

37 Humor

39 Sturgeon eggs

40 Ave. crossers