Week of 12/16/13 - 12/22/13
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by Margie E. Burke
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ACROSS 1 Etcher's need 5 Metal-shaping tool 10 Kind of carpet 14 Wintry coating 15 Orderly formation 16 Campaign event 17 Military melody 18 Writer's pseudonym 20 Pi Beta Phi, for one 22 Sandpaper grade 23 Put on cloud nine 24 Barbershop singer 25 Prayer beads 27 Awning, e.g. 31 Hopping mad 32 Nasty, as a remark 33 Reading room 34 Send packing 35 Newspaper type 36 Leave out 37 Floral garland 38 Fly off the handle 39 Cumin, for one 40 Stretch out 42 Rip to shreds 43 Strongly suggest 44 Shipboard crane
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45 Talk on and on 48 It's nearest the bow 51 Irksome 53 Division word 54 Serum container 55 Rapids transit? 56 Surgery souvenir 57 Barely beat 58 Go all out 59 Only
19 Outlaw chasers 21 Hard to come by 24 Cut, as an athlete 25 Part of NRA 26 Bay window 27 Shoot from hiding 28 Right of entry 29 Free of frost 30 Parking lot sign 32 Brown, perhaps 35 Contest for hot rods DOWN 1 Carney and 36 Hopefulness Rubinstein 38 Shore bird 2 Ta-ta in Tuscany 39 File menu 3 Concert command organizer 41 Suitable for marriage 4 Like ghost towns 42 Walmart 5 Soundness of competitor mind 44 Supporter of the 6 Penned arts 7 Fighting force 45 Bee Gees hit "____ Talkin'" 8 Wander idly 9 Supermodels, 46 Parched e.g. 47 Toot one's own 10 1984 Tom Hanks horn film 48 Speeder's penalty 11 Happy or rush follower 49 Hollywood 12 Money for the headliner poor 50 Ripped 13 Jane Lynch TV 52 Line on a receipt series