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