ACROSS
  • 1. To a degree
  • 14. Eventually
  • 15. Alfalfa, Buckwheat, and friends
  • 16. Some NCOs
  • 17. Succeeds
  • 27. Tranquilizers
  • 28. Ancient land with a sea named after it
  • 29. Hit the norm, at the Masters
  • 30. Brown-haired
  • 31. The Sorbonne, e.g.
  • 32. Soup cracker
  • 33. Bar order
  • 35. Backseat driver, e.g.
  • 36. 2001’s Planet of the Apes and others
  • 46. Star Trek setting
  • 47. Movie actress Kelly, familiarly, after her marriage
DOWN
  • 1. Atlas abbr.
  • 2. “___ won’t!”
  • 3. Juicehead
  • 4. Neighbor of Man.
  • 5. Director Gibson
  • 6. Set up
  • 7. Transforms onscreen
  • 8. Leave rubber, in a way
  • 9. Lou Gehrig’s disease, for short
  • 10. Fluid container
  • 11. Hagen of Key Largo
  • 12. Kin: Abbr.
  • 13. Hectic hosp. areas
  • 17. Is gloomy
  • 18. On the double
  • 19. Bolshoi rival
  • 20. Country singer Steve
  • 21. The Feast of St. Nicholas artist
  • 22. Finishing school enrollees
  • 23. Letter carrier’s assignment
  • 24. Yearly celebration: Abbr.
  • 25. Compound with two double bonds
  • 26. “Have you ___?”
  • 30. Pesters persistently
  • 32. Entraps
  • 34. Make ___ of (record)
  • 36. “How’s it hangin’, bro?”
  • 37. Early role-playing game co.
  • 38. East Coast rte.
  • 39. Stereo site
  • 40. Corp. name tag
  • 41. 18, for a Park Avenue on Park Ave.
  • 42. Depot abbr.
  • 43. Spectra automaker
  • 44. PC user’s panic button
  • 45. “Catch on?”