CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Stuns

5. Botch things up

8. Fraud

12. Chick’s remark

13. Cloth coloring

14. Approach

15. Swiss archer

16. Hair cream

17. Gives weapons to

18. Frozen

20. Polar abodes

22. August, e.g.

25. Paying passengers

26. Important time

27. Excuse

29. Atlantic food fish

32. Circle section

33. Small breads

34. Keats poem

35. New York player

36. Bay

37. Whack!

38. Hand-cream ingredients

40. Cautious

42. Deserves

44. Spell

45. Similar

46. Be in the red

48. Mountain refrain 52. Fix

53. Cut, as hay

54. Clarinet’s need

55. Uncertain

56. Timespan

57. Cultivate

DOWN

1. Competent

2. Small

3. Moray, e.g.

4. Tear in half

5. Uneasy

6. Hearty bread

7. Dependable

8. Fish feature

9. Star chart

10. Bullets

11. Military meal

19. “Swing Low, Sweet ____”

21. Tough part of a steak

22. Form of address

23. Giant

24. Type of peach

25. Occupies

28. “____ Dove”

30. Skunk feature

31. Moist

39. Actress Blair

41. Put forth

42. Papa’s woman

43. ____ out (barely manages)

44. Chopped

47. Seek to persuade

49. Letter before dee

50. Coop layer

51. Puzzling