Author: by Mark McClain
Across
Imaginative pursuit | ART |
Snapshot setting | FSTOP |
Freight carrier | SCOW |
Needing a battery charge | DEAD |
Furlough | LEAVE |
Quick stick | POKE |
Handywoman’s special | FIXERUPPER |
Maraud | RAID |
Novelist Zola | EMILE |
Common coffee-break time | TEN |
Magnet ends | POLES |
Basic nature | ESSENCE |
French affirmation | OUI |
Playground staple | TEETERTOTTER |
Scattered about | STREWN |
Vane venue | ROOF |
Big little name in WWII headlines | IKE |
Low digits | TOES |
Possum habitat | SWAMP |
Did some weeding | HOED |
Poetic preposition | ERE |
Flue stuff | SOOT |
Rids of errors | EMENDS |
Maker of miracles | WONDERWORKER |
Lob’s path | ARC |
Breakfast bar ingredient | OATBRAN |
Fancy neckwear | ASCOT |
Picnic discard | COB |
Eat into | ERODE |
In __ (fully) | TOTO |
Totally awesome | SUPERDUPER |
German auto | OPEL |
180 | UTURN |
Circular highway | BELT |
High degrees | PHDS |
“Personal” records | BESTS |
Paris’ Avenue __ Champs-Élysées | DES |
Down
Cost of a commercial | ADFEE |
Champagne region city | REIMS |
Prepares for takeoff | TAXIS |
Seasonal bug | FLU |
Swans, in a Christmas song | SEPTET |
First-aid kit item | TAPE |
Place for pizza | OVEN |
According to | PER |
Pop out of the ground | SPROUT |
Short-term alliance | COALITION |
Sooner | OKIE |
Gets hitched | WEDS |
Gets rid of | DELETES |
Freshen up | RENEW |
“Just like that!” | POOF |
Bleep out | CENSOR |
Muse of poetry | ERATO |
__-com (film genre) | ROM |
Midwestern capital | TOPEKA |
Scratched (out) | EKED |
Some house wines | REDS |
Hearty dinner | STEW |
“Rancho” beast | TORO |
Staged an historic battle | REENACTED |
“That’s amazing!” | WOW |
Flavor added to a roast | HERBRUB |
Faction of a faith | SECT |
Doled (out) | METED |
Displays overeagerness | DROOLS |
Parliamentary procedure pro | ROBERT |
Enticed, with “in” | ROPED |
One-named British singing star | ADELE |
Old-fashioned oath | NERTS |
Perched on | ATOP |
New sorority member, perhaps | SOPH |
Overly clever | CUTE |
Sonata designation | OPUS |
Temp | SUB |
Temp monitors | RNS |