This Week's Puzzle
Playing Ball (April 8)
Across
- 1. Cross-reference words
- 8. "Candy Is Dandy" poet Nash
- 13. Fine furs
- 14. Complex unit?
- 15. Tan
- 17. All the rage
- 18. Mai ___ (rum cocktail)
- 19. Well-known motorcycle group
- 24. ___ de coeur
- 26. Code word
- 27. 2001 DreamWorks hit
- 28. Andes capital
- 30. Bleat
- 32. Food sticker
- 33. Itsy-bitsy bits
- 35. Kind of computer port
- 37. Airport abbr.
- 38. "High Enough" hard-rock supergroup
- 41. Charlotte-to-Raleigh dir.
- 42. ___ King Cole
- 43. Aces all classes
- 50. Writer Wharton
- 51. Shop grippers
- 52. Annual athletic awards
- 53. Even smaller
Down
- 1. "Hold on a ___!"
- 2. Victorian, for one
- 3. 911 respondent
- 4. Corner
- 5. Listening to Muzak, maybe
- 6. Experimentation station
- 7. "___ Beso" (1962 hit)
- 8. A whole lot
- 9. Direction giver's direction
- 10. ___ lab
- 11. "Grand" ice-cream name
- 12. Discouraging words
- 16. Boston subway inits.
- 19. Call from the sidelines
- 20. Snowboarder White
- 21. Enemies of the Iroquois
- 22. Advanced
- 23. TV exec's work
- 24. Attired
- 25. "Lovely" Beatles girl
- 29. Broad political pardon
- 31. "Go easy on me!"
- 34. ARPs, etc.
- 36. Snoopy, for one
- 39. ___ Lingus (Irish carrier)
- 40. ___ Frome
- 43. "Fancy that!"
- 44. Masthead contents, briefly
- 45. End
- 46. Appear
- 47. "Dude, I don't want to know" inits.
- 48. Tarzan extra
- 49. Kazakhstan, once: Abbr.
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