Santa Cruz Sentinel

Crossword

No. 0912

- Edited by Will Shortz

ACROSS

Cut along the 1 grain

Collection of 7 offers?

“Them”

13 Component of 15 ants on a log Flash setting

16 Who shot

18 Mr. Burns on the classic TV episode “Who Shot Mr. Burns?”

Lowly sorts, in 19 pirate lingo Goes so-o-o 21 slowly

___ orange

22 Unenthused 23 response A.P.R.-lowering 24 option

Really digging

25

Mesoameric­an 26 language family with about half a million speakers

Sites of sudden 28 admissions, for short

A pop

29

Carolers’ wear

30 Middle-distance 31 options on fairways

The ___ Five, 32 nickname for the “Queer Eye” cast

Flip

35

Political 36 commentato­r Perino Non-nons?

37 Onetime airer 38 of “Music City Tonight” Multitudes

39

Kind of mold

40

Producers of 41 sharp increases in height? Score marking 43 to play higher or lower than written

Summer 45 carnival treat One pile of 46 laundry

“What are you 47 waiting for?!” Ostracized 48 group in the Bible

___ March 49 (annual event since 2017)

DOWN

Band with the 1 1974 hit “Come and Get Your Love” Bucktooth, e.g.

2 Student body 3 activity? Polluted, in a 4 way

Novelist Bender

5 Small dam

6 Channel that 7 airs many

B&W films Passenger car 8 attachment­s Some Prado 9 masterpiec­es Groupie

10 Etymology, for 11 example Rewards for 12 regular-season winners, maybe Racket pros

14 Mike and Carol 17 Brady, on “The Brady Bunch” Putting in a 20 tight spot

___ cards

26 (ESP testing items)

Slangy sedative

27 Covers, as a 29 pothole

Hiss

30

Strike that’s 31 barely struck Unfair trick

32

___ Dolohov, 33 one of the Death Eaters in Harry Potter books

Relatives of 34 bloodhound­s Author who 35 popularize­d the demon Mephistoph­eles Counterpar­t 36 of a brickand-mortar business

Strictly uphold

39

Prominent

40 part of a bloodhound

Early movie

42 mogul Marcus

Behind

44

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