Author: by Lester Ruff
Across
Stamp of approval | ACCEPTED |
Tries to draw | TEMPTS |
Western direction | THATAWAY |
Layout with a PYFGCRL line | DVORAK |
National dog of a Caribbean land | HAVANESE |
Seem to go quick | RACEBY |
Word associated with Santa | EVE |
Suppose | SAY |
Party __ | BUS |
Scrub hub | TUB |
Jack’s beat poet pal | NEAL |
Major influence on Scorsese | KAZAN |
Dramatic overture | MELO |
Order of the __ Eagle (Mexican medal) | AZTEC |
It’s seen seven times on the California county list | SAN |
Mineral in some detergents | BORAX |
32+-mile challenge, for short | TRI |
Canvas for Grandma Moses | MASONITE |
You can afford them | REASONABLERATES |
Less-than-enthusiastic assent | IGUESSSO |
“How ill to __ forget thee!”: Whitman | EER |
End notes | CODAS |
Station with a Global Public Square blog | CNN |
Fight or fragment | SCRAP |
Antonym of “absorb” | EMIT |
Erupts, with “over” | BOILS |
“Fiddler on the Roof” performance | HORA |
Cricket striker | BAT |
Hoppers, for instance | ART |
When e.e. cummings was interned | WWI |
Not the norm | ODD |
How some bagels are made | ONIONY |
The Mr. Coffee TM75, e.g. | TEAMAKER |
Joyce the mom in “Stranger Things” | WINONA |
George C. Scott, c. 1947 | USMARINE |
Word from the Latin for “ditch” | LAGOON |
Passes from your phone | ETICKETS |
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Advisor to Odysseus | ATHENA |
California schools close on his birthday | CHAVEZ |
Admonition | CAVEAT |
Navigational projection | ETA |
Galley array | PANS |
Minor refinement | TWEAK |
Low-effort learning | EASYAS |
What highlighters have | DYE |
Rusher’s success | TDRUN |
They repaired Skylab in ’73 | EVAS |
Sheep shearer’s shoe | MOC |
Verb for the past | PRETERIT |
Count up | TABULATE |
London’s Emirates Stadium has an entire tier of them | SKYBOXES |
Certainly not scintillating | BANAL |
Anagram of SEATTLE | LETSEAT |
What Snoopy drives in “She’s a Good Skate, Charlie Brown” | ZAMBONI |
Born leader | MONARCH |
Testy | CROSS |
Drills down | BORES |
Special entrées | INS |
__ double | SEE |
Asian cuisine staple | RICEBOWL |
Me, me, me, me, me, . . . | EGOMANIA |
Course for an accountant | AUDITING |
Part of a Lestat costume | ASCOT |
48 Down’s home | NLWEST |
Recent arrival | ROOKIE |
Impassioned | ARDENT |
Southwestern sluggers | PADRES |
Two-time loser to McKinley | BRYAN |
Pundit | SWAMI |
Trecentosessantacinque giorni | ANNO |
Apple originally shaped like an egg | IMAC |
Not at work, these days | OOO |
First workday of ’23 | TUE |
It was left in Genesis 8 | ARK |