ACROSS
  • 1. Starts to work on
  • 6. Threatening one
  • 13. Academy Award Gustavo Santaolalla won for Babel in 2006
  • 15. "Tutti Frutti" singer
  • 16. Standings column
  • 17. Little piggy
  • 18. New York Giant defensive end Umenyiora
  • 19. Brief-blooming flower
  • 23. Choice at an airplane ticket counter
  • 27. Surveyor's instrument
  • 28. Song played during Deliverance
  • 34. Smoke in a church
  • 35. Calligrapher's need
  • 36. Private jet VIP, maybe
  • 37. Medium-sized sofa
  • 40. Prattles
  • 45. Common policy on vacation time
  • 46. Whodunit
  • 47. Eye sores
DOWN
  • 1. Meaningless
  • 2. Lyrical musical passages
  • 3. Performs as a guest
  • 4. FBI employees
  • 5. Mah-jongg draw
  • 6. Dent or scratch
  • 7. Yale Bowl player
  • 8. White House advisory gp.
  • 9. Hamburg "Heavens!"
  • 10. Ring-tailed raccoon cousins
  • 11. Jazz pianist Garner
  • 12. Overnight flight
  • 14. Super Mario Bros. came with it
  • 19. Jump out of the way
  • 20. Elegant horse
  • 21. When tripled, "et cetera"
  • 22. Property claim
  • 24. Cartoon chipmunk
  • 25. Lena of Chocolat
  • 26. Standings column
  • 28. Formal declaration
  • 29. On pins and needles
  • 30. Where French classes are offered
  • 31. Small bus
  • 32. Diaper-covering T-shirt
  • 33. Trapshooting targets
  • 37. "Dick in a Box" show, for short
  • 38. Those, in Tijuana
  • 39. Student grade factor
  • 41. Hobby shop purchase
  • 42. Sault ____ Marie
  • 43. Swe. neighbor
  • 44. Jazz trombonist Kid ____