Author: Dan Schoenholz
Editor: Will Shortz
Across
Hot topping for a cone? LAVA
Practical joke JAPE
Tricky billiard shot MASSE
Way off AFAR
Ensconced in AMID
Asian dog breed AKITA
*Ensign NOPARKING
Rich sources of beta carotene KALES
Joint DOOBIE
One of millions in New Zealand EWE
Migration pattern? VEE
Lose one’s shirt, say STRIP
*Emirate MADASHELL
Coup planners CABAL
Ensiform, adj.: Shaped like a ___ SWORD
___ Valley NAPA
Singer Williams who founded the Temptations OTIS
Split up APART
Pre-med pre-req BIO
*Arbiter RATTLER
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, e.g. DUO
Came to pass AROSE
Bibliographer’s abbr. ETAL
Ceremony POMP
They’re typically older than seniors GRADS
One in it for the long haul LIFER
*Depot DUTCHOVEN
Put on a big smile LITUP
___ Formosa (barrier island system of Portugal) RIA
Figure in I Samuel ELI
Issuance from an American embassy, in brief USVISA
Discombobulated ATSEA
*Begin BEEFEATER
Meant to be FATED
“And so …” ERGO
Actor Woo-shik of “Parasite” CHOI
Long hauls TREKS
Doesn’t stay tight SAGS
Hankerings YENS
Down
Scores LANDS
Underway AFOOT
Steamy stuff VAPOR
Most-grown coffee bean in the world ARABICA
Copacetic JAKE
Bon ___ AMI
Exemplar of neatness PIN
Barely defeated EDGED
Launches an attack MAKESWAR
Going by, in brief AKA
Chevy truck since 1998 SILVERADO
Staple of Trinidadian music STEELDRUM
Plein-air prop EASEL
Kelly of morning talk RIPA
“Time ___ …” WAS
Nonreflective, in a way MATTE
Not too much ALITTLE
First part of a triple jump HOP
Stole from a burlesque act BOA
With 50-Down, annual June sports event NBA
It’s never out of tune AIRGUITAR
Anathema to an aesthete POORTASTE
Cut down SLAIN
Surpass TOP
What some people are dyeing to be? REDHEADS
Puckish sort ELF
___ fly SAC
Implied right in the First and Fourth Amendments PRIVACY
Big star, in Spain SOL
If-then-___ (programming construct) ELSE
See 31-Down DRAFT
Things one might pick up while entering a room VIBES
Church offering TITHE
Apply to USEON
Olympics site PARIS
Focus of the U.S.A.F.’s Project Blue Book (1952-1969) UFOS
“Yikes!” EEK
Time to remember ERA
___ white EGG
