Author: Eugene Sheffer
Across
| Soother | BALM |
| Hill dweller | ANT |
| Flightless birds | EMUS |
| Duel tool | EPEE |
| “The Crying Game” actor | REA |
| Merit badge holder | SASH |
| Starring role | LEAD |
| Nautical | MARITIME |
| Home of St. Francis | ASSISI |
| Sports venues | ARENAS |
| Kid’s plea | CANI |
| Hanoi holiday | TET |
| Tenderizing sauce | MARINADE |
| Stallion’s mate | MARE |
| “Life — cabaret …” | ISA |
| Fear greatly | DREAD |
| Charged bit | ION |
| “Forrest —” | GUMP |
| Singer Faithfull | MARIANNE |
| Luau bowlful | POI |
| Swizzle | STIR |
| Actress Plummer | AMANDA |
| Offered clues | HINTED |
| Style of Mexican music | MARIACHI |
| Rice-shaped pasta | ORZO |
| Diminutive suffix | ETTE |
| Haw preceder | HEE |
| Entice | LURE |
| Lip | SASS |
| Blunder | ERR |
| Beloved | DEAR |
Down
| Composer Bartok | BELA |
| Tarzan’s clique | APES |
| Meadows | LEAS |
| Famed Florentine family | MEDICI |
| How lovers may stroll | ARMINARM |
| PBS funder | NEA |
| Skater Lipinski | TARA |
| Honor | ESTEEM |
| Assert | MAINTAIN |
| Sch. at West Point | USMA |
| Spike Lee’s “— Gotta Have It” | SHES |
| NYC subway line | IRT |
| Hourglass fill | SAND |
| Concepts | IDEAS |
| Russian jet | MIG |
| Tempe sch. | ASU |
| Bulwarks | RAMPARTS |
| More coarse | EARTHIER |
| Harry Potter pal | RON |
| Away from WSW | ENE |
| 503, in old Rome | DIII |
| Shetlands, e.g. | PONIES |
| Golf’s Palmer | ARNOLD |
| Journalist Tarbell | IDA |
| Iowa city | AMES |
| — Hari | MATA |
| Sore spot | ACHE |
| Verifiable | TRUE |
| Poet Pound | EZRA |
| Active sort | DOER |
| Grammy-winning “Fight for You” singer | HER |
