• September 21, 1992
• Vol. 38
• No. 12

Comic Relief

By Stanley Newman

ACROSS

1. Concorde initials
4. Disparities
8. Scrooge's comment
11. Luau instrument
12. Neck of the woods
13. Clean-air agency (abbr.)
14. Mr. Saturday Night star (2 wds.)
17. Overhead trains
18. Director Preminger
19. Hoist
22. Umpire's call
24. Pavarotti solo
25. ___ podrida (miscellany)
26. Shredder, to the Ninja Turtles
29. When ___...('89 film starrring 14 Across, 3 wds.)
32. Pompous one
33. Invalidate
34. Salary
35. French friends
36. Betting setting
37. Urban eyesore
39. "American ___" (Don McLean tune)
40. '91 film starring 14 Across (2 wds.)
46. Rowing implement
47. Actress ___ Skye
48. Also
49. "___ a Little Tenderness"
50. Plumb loco
51. Bernard Shaw's network

DOWN

1. U-boat, for one
2. Enjoy Squaw Valley
3. ___ Aviv
4. "Talking in Your Sleep" singer
5. Curved lines
6. ___ se (by itself)
7. Pronounce
8. Baby Jane portrayer in '62
9. Get on the back (2 wds.)
10. Heavenly headgear
15. Burton of Star Trek: The Next Generation
16. Living-room furniture
19. One-liner response (2 wds.)
20. Historical periods
21. Puts on television
22. Winter vehicles
23. Chorus member
25. Atlanta arena
26. "You're a Grand Old ___"
27. Gymnast Korbut
28. For Your ___ Only (007 film)
30. Delicious
31. "Eight Days ___" (Beatles tune, 2 wds.)
35. Cowboy singer Gene
36. Bad habits
37. Sean Connery, for one
38. Untrustworthy one
39. Milk purchase
41. Wickedness
42. Mr. Costello
43. List-shortening abbreviation
44. Far and Away director Howard
45. Michael Douglas, to Kirk