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 ____