Crossword: by Steve Mossberg
Across
| One making long-distance calls | SPACECRAFT |
| Swiss partner | HAM |
| Large racket | HULLABALOO |
| Twenty-seven connection | FOUR |
| What ranch houses typically haven’t | UPPERSTORY |
| Heads up | RUNS |
| Sounding stuffy | NASAL |
| Pushing the most | EDGIEST |
| Città che circonda il Vaticano | ROMA |
| Coherence | SENSE |
| Prime minister after Brian | KIM |
| Agricultural block | BALE |
| Gung-ho | RAHRAH |
| Group taking in imports | ANIMECLUB |
| Mystic’s reading material | AURA |
| Time best forgotten | ANNUSHORRIBILIS |
| Writing on jackets | BIOS |
| Paused | TOOKAREST |
| Of the above | AERIAL |
| Quick sketch | SKIT |
| Go with | SEE |
| What bassoon music begins with | FCLEF |
| Mozzarella alternative for lasagna | EDAM |
| They’re assumed by many novelists | ALIASES |
| What a seminarian may become | RABBI |
| Publisher of two Water Polo newsletters | NCAA |
| National litter cleanup program | ADOPTAROAD |
| Nothing exciting | YAWN |
| Largest break in the California Coastal Range | GOLDENGATE |
| What can precede giving or taking | MIS |
| Requiring conserving | ENDANGERED |
Down
| Go around | SHUN |
| One no longer crawling | PUPA |
| Where the Rhine rises | ALPS |
| Reset | CLEAR |
| Some external adipose tissue | EARLOBES |
| It began as United Independent Broadcasters (1927) | CBS |
| Dock denizen | RAT |
| Yucca cousin | ALOE |
| Wades through | FORDS |
| Type of tabby | TOYGER |
| Play adaptations | HOUSERULES |
| Familial female | AUNT |
| Clue card designation | MRS |
| What you might take a walk to get | FRESHAIR |
| __ minute | INA |
| Eminent shock-wave studier | MACH |
| Appropriate | ALLOT |
| Hajji’s destination | KAABA |
| Depression on a trunk | INNIE |
| Chips or scratches | MINORFLAWS |
| You can buy them for about a buck | EUROS |
| Stop lying | ARISE |
| Precipitation | HASTE |
| Person paid to play | MUSICIAN |
| Shared first | BROKE |
| Disclaiming postscript | IKID |
| Clooney threw it in a ’97 film | BATARANG |
| Culinary go-between | ALA |
| French writer of “Facts are stubborn things” | LESAGE |
| Consumed | FEDON |
| Alternative to Peggy | MARGE |
| Three-syllable fruit | ACAI |
| Totally in | SOLD |
| Male mink | BOAR |
| Restrain | BATE |
| Picked out | IDED |
| Division sharer with ATL and PHI | NYM |
| Cell ancestor | PDA |
| Top __ | TEN |
