ACROSS
  • 1. Kicking back
  • 7. Like some auctions
  • 13. Knife holder
  • 14. Mouthwash target
  • 15. Idiot box: var.
  • 16. Consequence
  • 17. Like trees of summer
  • 18. Start of a declaration
  • 19. Flash Gordon villain ____ the Merciless
  • 21. Novelist Wiesel
  • 22. Blouse accompanier
  • 24. Uplift spiritually
  • 25. "I may be totally wrong ..."
  • 27. "Bad, bad ____ Brown ..."
  • 28. "À votre ___!" (to your health)
  • 29. Islamic call to prayer
  • 30. Pincushion alternative
  • 31. Telling it like it is
  • 33. Takes care of
  • 38. One of the Gandhis
  • 39. Spare target, sometimes
  • 40. Tiny-capped mushrooms
  • 41. Mussolini moniker
  • 42. Go back on one's word
  • 43. Super Bowl VIII MVP Larry
DOWN
  • 1. Italian wine center
  • 2. "In that case..."
  • 3. Rod attachment
  • 4. Gutter locale
  • 5. How some Harlequin romance novels proceed
  • 6. 1991 best-selling legal thriller
  • 7. Parsley piece
  • 8. Dots in la mer
  • 9. Beat against
  • 10. Handicap, say
  • 11. Invalidate
  • 12. Lipton competitor
  • 20. Weapons check, in brief
  • 22. Susan of Dead Man Walking
  • 23. Solitaire game
  • 24. Golfer nicknamed "the Big Easy"
  • 25. The Bathers painter Paul
  • 26. Biting or corrosive
  • 27. More frilly
  • 30. Shake an Etch A Sketch
  • 32. Not a copy: Abbr.
  • 34. Marijuana
  • 35. DJed
  • 36. Little bloodsucker
  • 37. Top draft level