Crossword: by Lars G. Doubleday
Across
| Financially independent guy | MADEMAN |
| Clogs, for example | SLIPONS |
| Visceral | EMOTIVE |
| Sundae bar selection | COCONUT |
| Less likely to split | LOYALER |
| Vain | USELESS |
| Focus of a pioneering Western film | TRAINROBBERY |
| “__ Huguenots” (Meyerbeer opera) | LES |
| Erstwhile RFK Stadium player | NAT |
| French Sudan, today | MALI |
| About 91 yards of a football field | ACRE |
| UV Index monitor | EPA |
| Bardic king | OBERON |
| Tee’s usual lack | SHIRTTAIL |
| “Wolves of the sea” | ORCAS |
| Cut-and-dried stuff | HAY |
| Short race | HOBBITS |
| Flying start | AVI |
| It may give you a lift | CRANE |
| Quartet in Mississippi | AREACODES |
| Committed | ARDENT |
| Coverage, so to speak | INK |
| Song conclusion | FEST |
| Neighborhood adjoining Greenwich Village | NOHO |
| Toward Poland, from 61 Across | OST |
| Santa, in Moore’s poem | ELF |
| Resumption after an interruption | NOWWHEREWASI |
| Metropolis on the Rhine | COLOGNE |
| Desk fixture | NOTEPAD |
| Badger habitat | PRAIRIE |
| Confounded | DOGGONE |
| Pitches everyplace | ADCREEP |
| Back down? | STOOPED |
Down
| Show little willpower | MELT |
| Ricky Martin “Solo por ella” tune | AMOR |
| Defiant query | DOYA |
| Always-open merchant | ETAILER |
| Beatrice Potter Contemporary | MILNE |
| Resisting | AVERSETO |
| Inspiration to Napoleon | NERO |
| Free-diving alternative | SCUBA |
| Finish behind | LOSETO |
| “Congratulations!” message source, maybe | ICER |
| Shellac or silk | POLYMER |
| Leaner’s point value | ONE |
| Frat letters | NUS |
| Urban network: Abbr. | STS |
| Literally, “Children of the Covenant” | BNAIBRITH |
| It’s covered for strollers | ARCADE |
| Molded meat | LOAVES |
| Show willpower | INSIST |
| Picnic paper’s destination | ASHCAN |
| Mexican cowboy | CHARRO |
| Mideast financial center | RIYADH |
| B vitamin acronym | PABA |
| Pomology specimen | BOSC |
| So it seems | THEN |
| Legal remedy of a sort | LIEN |
| Become hard to get rid of | TAKEROOT |
| Genre of graphic novels | NEONOIR |
| Road trip starter | OFFWEGO |
| Local | TOWNIE |
| Bug hunt | SWEEP |
| Allowed to run | LETGO |
| Hard-to-please type | OGRE |
| Wraps | ENDS |
| Unbundled | APOP |
| Together | SANE |
| Fully recognized | IDED |
| Norm’s occupation on “Cheers” | CPA |
| Fort that’s a National Monument | ORD |
| “Ski nautique” venue | LAC |
