Author: Eugene Sheffer
Across
Donned | WORE |
“Spring ahead” hrs. | DST |
Banquet platform | DAIS |
Trojan War hero | AJAX |
Presidential nickname | IKE |
Approximately | ORSO |
Fury | RAGE |
Bias | DIAGONAL |
Precious stone | DIAMOND |
Came to | AWOKE |
Soup cooker | POT |
“Alice” waitress | FLO |
“Swell!” | NEATO |
Nursery stack | DIAPERS |
On in years | OLD |
Distant | FAR |
Marseilles monarch | ROI |
Journals | DIARIES |
Bread and pasta, slangily | CARBS |
Noshed | ATE |
Prof’s degree | PHD |
Maine college town | ORONO |
Using a rotary phone | DIALING |
A type of musical scale | DIATONIC |
Construction piece | IBAR |
Rue the run | ACHE |
Pen filler | INK |
Composer Bartok | BELA |
Thy | YOUR |
Some coll. degrees | BAS |
Remain | STAY |
Down
City district | WARD |
California town | OJAI |
Sitarist’s music | RAGA |
Off the hook | EXEMPT |
Failed to | DIDNT |
Lose traction | SKID |
Darjeeling, e.g. | TEA |
’50s singing style | DOOWOP |
Florence’s river | ARNO |
Author Dinesen | ISAK |
Only | SOLE |
Fancy party | GALA |
Odometer start | OOO |
Tall tree | FIR |
Silent assent | NOD |
Yale grad | ELI |
Oklahoma city | ADA |
“— Kapital” | DAS |
Blunder | ERR |
Filch | ROB |
Bro’s kin | SIS |
Charge | FEE |
One on a tirade | RANTER |
Langston Hughes poem | ITOO |
Chinese tea | CHA |
Improvises | ADLIBS |
Chooses | PICKS |
Singer Anita | ODAY |
Puerto — | RICO |
Diamond Head locale | OAHU |
Actress Merrill | DINA |
“Yeah, right” | IBET |
“The Lion King” lion | NALA |
Battleship color | GRAY |
Pen tip | NIB |