CROSSWORD NO. 1

ACROSS

1 Fire remnants

6 Coffee additive

11 Tea cake

12 Banded rock

13 The Nina and the

Pinta, e.g.

15 Toward the stern

16 — Moines

17 Maiden name label

18 Renege, perhaps

20 Summer cooler

21 Was a pioneer

22 Ventilation conduit

23 Fancy tie

26 Hay bundles

27 Campus area

28 Knight’s address

29 Ornate vase

30 Parvenu

34 “I — Rock”

35 Take to court

36 Tell tales

37 James Hilton title

character

40 Famed fur tycoon

41 Himalayan land

42 Draws close to

43 Like cacti

DOWN

1 Region of northern

India

2 Verne specialty

3 Party VIPS

4 Tolkien tree herder

5 Tiny start 6 Pert

7 “Gross!”

8 Lucrative

9 Content

10 Bristles at

14 Enjoy a novel

19 Proceed slowly

22 Pub missile

23 Superhero from

Atlantis

24 Conjecture © 2021 KING FEATURES SYNDICATE, INC.

25 Two-deck

game

26 Cuts in two

28 Goad on

30 Manual readers

31 Suspect’s story

32 Turn red, maybe

33 Irritable

38 Craggy hill

39 Femur’s upper

end