This Week's Puzzle
40 Across Rhymes with 'Moid' (October 11)
ACROSS
- 1. Return of the Jedi villain
- 9. Hurt badly
- 13. Prophetic
- 14. Tennis's Kournikova
- 15. Totally unexpected
- 17. Parking ___
- 18. Made crazy
- 19. Part of a C.S.A. signature
- 21. Like a line
- 22. ___ premium
- 23. Prefix meaning "tooth"
- 25. ___ Pointe, Michigan
- 27. Mai ___
- 29. Did nothing
- 30. Reunion attendee
- 33. Friend of Fran and Ollie
- 37. Bird word form
- 38. Standard
- 40. Character used in Domino's Pizza advertisements of the 1980s
- 41. Companies with a definite purpose
- 44. Kind of camera
- 45. It usually starts "How many...?"
- 47. Chick-____
- 48. The Stepford Wives author
- 49. Car sticker abbr.
- 50. Cowboy du jour
DOWN
- 1. Went for a strike
- 2. Colorful songbird
- 3. ___ down the hatches
- 4. Germanic cry
- 5. Back
- 6. What Spanish athletes go for in the Olympics
- 7. Shooting marbles
- 8. Rolling Stone movie reviewer Peter
- 9. Death in Venice author Thomas
- 10. Inner selves
- 11. Present at birth
- 12. Octopussy Bond girl
- 16. New Jersey's state tree
- 20. Accusatory words
- 24. "You got the wrong guy"
- 26. Phaser setting
- 28. Circling
- 30. Steers clear of
- 31. Stick around for
- 32. Boxer Gatti
- 34. Serbian hotspot in the 1990s
- 35. The first female rapper to have the number one Billboard song
- 36. Glandular prefix
- 37. Happy as ___
- 39. Italian city that's home to La Scala
- 42. Good name for a herding dog
- 43. With skill
- 46. Head Deadhead, for short
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40 Across Rhymes with 'Moid' (October 11)