The Columbus Dispatch

CROSSWORD NO. 1

- By Thomas Joseph © 2021 KING FEATURES SYNDICATE, INC.

ACROSS

1 Part of A.D.

5 Not live

10 Spring

11 Phone feature

12 Move slowly

13 Voiced a view

14 Resist change

16 Softie

20 Pixie

23 Vein yield

24 Clergy’s

counterpar­t

25 Stares stupidly

27 Trickery

28 Most adorable

29 Military bigwig

32 Table protector

36 Lowly despot

39 Niger neighbor

40 Looks forward to

41 Scheme

42 Come together

43 Circus setting

DOWN

1 Pub quaffs

2 Dapper

3 Curiosity org.

4 Mine, of a sort

5 Spanish snacks

6 Friendship

7 Stock holder

8 Before, to bards

9 Pop

11 Small grove 15 Obligation

17 Get by

18 God of war

19 Final, for one

20 Thick slice

21 Katherine — (Henry

VIII’S last wife)

22 Poet Dove

25 Avocado dip,

casually 26 Try

28 Cowboy wear

30 Parsley unit

31 Roofing material

33 Like bulls

34 Arkin of “Argo”

35 Shade

36 Texas’s Houston

37 Really impress

38 Pitch’s kin

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