Adama Baba’s CROSSWORDZ 420

C L U E S

Across

1. Nightclub units

7. Former Senate minority leader

14. Measure of insulating ability

15. Clam

16. Change actors in

17. Scientific series

18. Expunge

19. Twaddle

20. __ Arc, Arkansas

21. Truth-in-lending nos.

22. Once bitten, so to speak

23. Provoke

24. Official language in Vientiane

25. Big name in whiskey

26. “No man is an island” penner

27. Bookkeeping entry

29. Whopper junior?

30. Spreads rumors

34. Crew member

35. No fluff piece

37. Sacred song

40. Condemn openly

41. Dedicatory title words

42. Main course?

43. Uneven

44. Kisser

45. Ending with law or saw

46. “The Count of Monte Cristo” author

47. University of Western Australia site

48. Adjust, as a recipe

50. Iris covering

51. Unpredictable

52. Like haunted houses

53. Litter components, maybe

54. Alcove

Down

1. Quack’s offering

2. Like some resented employees

3. Elbows on the table?

4. Fort Wayne-born designer

5. York’s river

6. 6-4 or 6-2, e.g.

7. Deprive of heaters?

8. Accord

9. Vague amount

10. Year in the reign of St. Pius I

11. Confrontational

12. Spaghetti relative

13. Maroon

15. Controversial neurosis treatment

19. 1990s Israeli prime minister

22. Carafe, often

23. Dick Grayson’s alter ego

25. Drummer’s cymbal

26. Rapper P. __

28. Name on a bottle of Spellbound perfume

29. Ride with cars, perhaps

31. Maligned writers

32. One no longer overseas

33. Ballroom dances

36. Walks confidently

37. International labor celebration

38. Bullfight cheer

39. Old Toyota

40. Voices an objection

43. One charged by a judge

44. “Life: A User’s Manual” author Georges

46. Spoil, with “on”

47. Sweater unit?

49. Start to use

50. “Suzie Q” band, for short