By Jens Tamang

Across
1 Latin: for this purpose
6 Author Ellison
11 Simple kind of sandwich
14 One way to travel
15 Acclimate to the dregs
16 Tell an untruth
17 Mideast entertainer, maybe
19 Respected Eng. word reference
20 French “is”

21 Web addresses
22 Old-time calculator
24 Prefix with -omical
25 60s psychedelic of choice
26 Chance
31 Thread’s friend
33 Sedaris of “Strangers with Candy”

34 Our nation
35 70s TV series with Herschel Bernardi
36 Yes, alright, go ahead
37 Pesto plant
39 Creepy kid in “Toy Story”

40 Cause of all sin, to a Christian
41 Abandon
42 Punch-drunk-love
46 Body part that can be doubled with age?
47 Twits
48 Kind of diet
51 Singer Clapton
52 Much ___ About Nothing
55 ___ cart
56 Host of a Friars Club event
59 It’s raining _
60 First two words of Rice’s “The Blower’s Daughter”

4 the bane of our existence?
5 throw in the towel
6 John Singleton’s home town
7 Raggedy ____ (dolls)
8 Star Trek character Jean- Picard
9 Holier than thou
10 Anthropomorphic car, for one
11 The European Union, for one
12 With “in” it means ‘in place of’
13 Kennedy, Bundy, Roosevelt
18 Des Moines university
23 op. of subtract
24 Car brand, with rings
25 you get your cash at them
26 “___ _ helping hand”

27 Some women at climax?
28 Tricky business?
29 C __ __ Charlie
30 Poet Whitman
31 Nobel Laureate John F.
32 The creepiest canal?
36 where one bakes things
37 Hawty witha Body! Holler!
38 Cure-____ (panacea)
40 The antagonist
41 Adjust one’s sights
44 Scarlet (protagonist), Frank (poet), and Maureen (actress)
45 He has a who?
48 Light up apparatus
49 Prefix meaning “oil”

50 Need’s friend
51 Hispanic gangsta, in some slang
52 Smart car company
52 Half, in French
54 Blowjob, formally