This Week's Puzzle
Pencil Men (Apr. 15
Across
- 1. The Hurt Locker extras
- 4. "My ___!"
- 8. A quarter of eight?
- 11. Appropriate
- 12. Evening hour
- 13. "Spare the ___ ..."
- 14. Proceeds with speed
- 17. One- ___ (short play)
- 18. Hubby's towel word
- 19. Excited activity
- 20. Approve
- 24. Cup material
- 26. Peace, in Russia
- 27. Oil source
- 28. Gets dark
- 30. Cousin of -trix
- 31. Whispering party game
- 33. Bric-a-brac stands
- 35. "___ calls?"
- 36. Academic basics, casually
- 37. Blue eyes or baldness, e.g.
- 39. College appointment
- 44. Order to attack, with "on"
- 45. Cant
- 46. Bank offering, for short
- 47. "All systems go"
- 48. Study, say
- 49. It's what made you you
Down
- 1. [That's awful!]
- 2. Nasdaq debut: Abbr.
- 3. Very dependable
- 4. Next life
- 5. Exceedingly
- 6. The Crying Game actor
- 7. Hardly obscure
- 8. "You'll have to take my word for it"
- 9. Came in first
- 10. Has too much, briefly
- 12. ___ Hulka (Stripes role)
- 15. Disdain
- 16. Bathtub liquid?
- 19. Explosive experiment
- 21. Place for a pitch
- 22. Bassless?
- 23. Cockney's steed
- 24. Graf ___ (WWII German battleship)
- 25. Canal locale
- 29. Massenet opera
- 32. "Get a move on!"
- 34. '70s pres. monogram
- 38. Works in a museum?
- 39. Antidrug ad, e.g.
- 40. 1983 Duran Duran hit
- 41. Breaking capacity, briefly
- 42. Anger
- 43. Opposite of bellum
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