CROSSWORD

PUZZLE NO. 91

ACROSS

1. Choir singer

5. Yak

8. Detail

12. Hired thug

13. She-sheep

14. Bright star

15. Revered

17. Competed

18. Hearty soups

19. Different

20. Headache cure

25. Pale

28. Self

32. Craps cube

33. Storm winds

34. Have bills

35. Shielded

37. Blizzard stuff

38. Flower

40. Messy type

43. Trench

47. Cab

48. Device for wingtips

51. Baker’s box

52. Buddy

53. Sledder’s delight

54. Sharp pain

55. Tack on

56. Auctioneer’s word

DOWN

1. Eons

2. Did not win

3. Haul

4. Like some streets: hyph.

5. Sparkler

6. Astonish

7. Bunk

8. Coin

9. Work hard

10. 12/24 and 12/31

11. Manufactured

16. Curvy turn

21. Baby grand, e.g.

22. Lazes around

23. Woodwind instruments

24. Outs’ opposites

25. Commercials

26. Attack!

27. “____ Alibi”

29. Charged particle

30. Duo number

31. Certain evergreen

33. Toothpaste option

36. Waning

37. Metalworkers

39. “____ to a Nightingale”

40. Terminate

41. Volcanic fluid

42. Farm animals

44. Three musicians

45. Battery

46. Clutched

48. Fitness center

49. Owned

50. Dated