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Author: Mike Shenk
Across
| Like Mafia higher-ups | MADE |
| Rewrites for the screen, say | ADAPTS |
| Connecticut Avenue-St. Charles Place go-between | JAIL |
| Sixth col. heading | FRI |
| HCl, for one | ACID |
| High quarters | GARRET |
| 1952 Winter Olympics host | OSLO |
| Pound sterling | QUID |
| Altar slab? | SHRINESTONE |
| Display samples in the confectioner’s shop? | SHOWFUDGE |
| Scraps | SETTOS |
| Play place | STAGE |
| Develop wing feathers | FLEDGE |
| Dandy | FOP |
| Subway posting | MAP |
| Lt. Columbo’s employer | LAPD |
| Bother | AIL |
| Surf with one’s buds? | SHAREWAVES |
| Translucent bath stoppers? | SHEERPLUGS |
| Start for d’oeuvres or de combat | HORS |
| Held in reserve | ONICE |
| Leaves speechless | AWES |
| Comfy shoe, casually | MOC |
| Hackberry’s family | ELM |
| Take turns | ROTATE |
| Archipelago composition | ISLES |
| Babe’s basic beverage | WAWA |
| Successfully enticed | REELEDIN |
| Delicate hue | PASTEL |
| Caravan creature | CAMEL |
| Past-due debts | ARREARS |
| Partridge named for the Partridge family mother? | SHIRLEYBIRD |
| Bother | ADO |
| Walks unsteadily | TOTTERS |
| California’s Santa ___ winds | ANA |
| Specialist in the lamp factory? | SHADEWORKER |
| Pan-fried, as pancetta | CRISPED |
| Pot addition | WAGER |
| Shrikes’ cousins | VIREOS |
| Southwestern spread owner | RANCHERO |
| Country club club | IRON |
| Monument Valley features | MESAS |
| Camping treats | SMORES |
| Canine warning | GRR |
| Nine-digit ID | SSN |
| Antlered animal | HART |
| “Groundhog Day” director | RAMIS |
| French vineyard | CLOS |
| Introvert in your address book? | SHYCONTACT |
| Champion of Hooverville? | SHANTYHERO |
| “Selma” director DuVernay | AVA |
| Peaceful race in “Avatar” | NAVI |
| “Brokeback Mountain” director Lee | ANG |
| Alpha rhythm scan, for short | EEG |
| Is penitent | ATONES |
| Lord’s place | MANOR |
| Lethargic state | TORPOR |
| Big name in the pashmina biz? | SHAWLSTAR |
| Designer Wang, interested only in superficial matters? | SHALLOWVERA |
| Carry | TOTE |
| Crooked | AWRY |
| Legally prohibit | ENJOIN |
| Article | ITEM |
| Locs. for people wearing gowns | ORS |
| Loudly laments | SOBS |
| Pleasantly warm | TOASTY |
| Reduced amount | LESS |
Down
| Celebrant’s service | MASS |
| Canine warning? | ACHE |
| Laborer with no hands | DIRTFARMER |
| Paper powers | EDITORS |
| Annoying wait | AGES |
| Courthouse figs. | DAS |
| Cunning | ART |
| Candidate for being brought up to the Majors | PROSPECT |
| It requires pitching | TENT |
| Terrific buy | STEAL |
| Nativity scene figure | JOSEPH |
| Fireplace bit | ASH |
| Agcy. that won the 1969 Nobel Peace Prize | ILO |
| Spirit come-ons | LOWFARES |
| Surname of a noted wabbit hunter | FUDD |
| Diana of “Game of Thrones” | RIGG |
| Cannes concept | IDEE |
| Put down | QUELL |
| “Huh-uh” | NOPE |
| Decides to inform | FLIPS |
| Terrific time | GAS |
| Predatory insect | MANTIS |
| Interesting to ornithologists | AVIAN |
| Deck handlers | DEALERS |
| “Princess of Power” of cartoons | SHERA |
| Perforating tool | HOLER |
| President between William and Warren | WOODROW |
| Trickle | SEEP |
| Tom of “The Seven Year Itch” | EWELL |
| Savory taste | UMAMI |
| “42nd Street” director/choreographer Champion | GOWER |
| Spill cocoa on, say | SCALD |
| Publishing house staffer | READER |
| “___ Dead?” (Mark Twain play) | ISHE |
| Eggnog recipe direction | STIR |
| River in the title of Indiana’s state song | WABASH |
| Like many a winter sky | LEADEN |
| Elroy’s canine pal | ASTRO |
| Jaded bunch | CYNICS |
| Utterly serious | EARNEST |
| Wagnerian title role | TRISTAN |
| Gumbo vegetable | OKRA |
| Simple tops | TEES |
| Reuben layer | SWISS |
| Strident | HARSH |
| “Into the Woods” song | AGONY |
| Not hidden | OVERT |
| Compassionate | CARING |
| Brutish villain of Mickey Mouse cartoons | PEGLEGPETE |
| Reason for erasure | ERROR |
| Back: Prefix | DORSO |
| Latv. and Lith., until 1990 | SSRS |
| Like Venus and Vulcan | ROMAN |
| Battle of Bull Run site | MANASSAS |
| Sikh Empire founder Ranjit Singh, e.g. | MAHARAJA |
| Squalid shack | HOVEL |
| Parsley kin | CHERVIL |
| Eager kids’ plea | CANWE |
| Midsize Toyotas | CAMRYS |
| Nolichucky Dam maintainer: Abbr. | TVA |
| Pained cry | YEOW |
| Atlas detail | INSET |
| Concerning | ASTO |
| 2011 blockbuster directed by Kenneth Branagh | THOR |
| Mare meal | OATS |
| “Dear me!” | OHNO |
| Expensively stylish | TONY |
| Metal sources | ORES |
| Super Bowl XXXIV victors | RAMS |
| Turtledoves count | TWO |
| Securities trader, for short | ARB |
| ___ Alamos | LOS |
| Excellent, in slang | LIT |