cross16ap08

Across
1. strikes, moves, with a splashing sound; swaggers (7)
8. superscript 3 (5)
13. material resulting from calcination; calx (7)
14. smell it (5)
15. different writer (7)
16. same (5)
17. “a” small matter (4)
18. assortment or mixture (7)
20. very cold, icy (5)
22. hardwood (3)
23. noisy clamour (3)
24. on deathbed (5)
26. dead ___ (3)
27. person who hits (6)
30. beats around the bush (6)
33. past tense of hiding (3)
34. eagle’s nest (5)
36. put to good ___ (3)
37. pigpen, or eyesore (3)
38. what a welder did to start (5)
42. poorly paid new hire (7)
44. as well (4)
45. compete; what Mrs. Bucket tries to do (5)
46. sugar in milk (7)
49. laugh mockingly (5)
50. do to cake (3,4)
51. horizontal band on herald symbol (5)
52. oxymoron action for button (7)

Down
1. a scrawny person (5)
2. ___, ME zip code 04492 (5)
3. Double eclipsing star in Perseus, almost as bright as Polaris (5)
4. Movie about ___ (7)
5. “pow!”, “crunch!” (3)
6. compass point (3)
7. moral lecture (6)
8. done to window frame (5)
9. dipper; bear; big and little (4)
10. has bounds or limits (7)
11. Lennon’s hit song (7)
12. first day of month on Roman calendar (7)
19. keen (5)
21. colourful wash (3)
25. ticked off (5)
27. block the way; flip switch (4,3)
28. bad judgement (7)
29. imagines, thinks, forms mental
images (7)
31. last public train; by way of (3)
32. on a faucet (7)
35. down when sleeping (6)
37. sleep soundly (5)
39. one garlic is this (5)
40. S, and another S and so on (5)
41. Manitoba Premier and family (5)
43. 15 of March (4)
47. the card up a sleeve (3)
48. Union acronym (3)

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Answers to the crossword in our April 1-15 issue:
Across: 1) woe 4) Deva 8) kerb 12) torr 13) adar 14) ivory 16) urge
17) tine 18) revue 19) bra 20) oat 21) ado 23) eta 24) synod 26) ova
28) add 30) BBC 32) veto 36) surf 39) Rhea 41) eyed 42) era
43) yeast 45) end 46) lens 48) ruse 49) orts 50) fate 51) sot 52) nod
54) asp 56) ferry 60) yak 63) aye 65) apt 67) hue 68) Eliot 70) lava
72) girl 73) teeny 74) skew 75) anal 76) ever 77) Earl 78) pol
Down: 1) worry 2) organ 3) ere 4) data 5) edit 6) van 7) area 8) Kirov
9) eve 10) rove 11) brut 12) tubs 15) yea 20) odd 22) doc 25) oaf
27) ave 29) dry 30) beaut 31) bass 33) eyer 34) tent 35) odds 36) self
37) urea 38) rant 40) hero 44) ten 47) sea 49) ode 51) spy