Crossword Puzzle for 9-11-09

By Matt Gaffney

Issue of Sept. 11, 2009 / 22 Elul 5769

Across

1 Larry Gelbart's pride

5 Hoover et al.

9 Use an Uzi

14 Fashionable periodical

15 Charles Lamb's pen name

16 ___ fear (is intrepid)

17 Portrayer of Happy and Billy

18 Well, to Sephardim

19 Example of monotheism

20 Moshe Sharett's predecessor and successor

23 A as in Asch

24 Marx's hue

25 Like the Hamptons

29 "Scarborough ___"

31 Cigar remains

34 "Home ___"

35 Funny Barry

36 Margarine

37 Roth work of 1959

40 Lower East Side homes, for short

41 "Hear, hear!"

42 Piece maker

43 Nessman of "WKRP in Cincinnati"

44 What the speaker's holding

45 Way out

46 Holstein comment

47 Miner concern

48 Kidnappers of 1924

56 Play shadchan

57 Facility

58 "Oy vey!"

59 "___ My Love"  (Friedman song)

60 Bills of Washington

61 Timer sound

62 Like some references

63 Jay's home

64 Baird and Caldwell

Down

1 Nevada-Arizona lake

2 1-Across actor

3 Many a Pale of Settlement resident

4 Prefix with sphere

5 59-Across composer

6 Spielberg character, frequently

7 Demeanor

8 Did some Gershwin

9 Third Reich chronicler

10 Tzaddik, for instance

11 Quisling's capital

12 Judah's son

13 Arnold of TV

21 Brightest star in Cygnus

22 Hebrew for "light of G-d"

25 Katie of  "Married...With Children"

26 Forego a chupah wedding

27 In which Asner played Thomas Davies

28 Machiavelli concerns

29 Streisand film title word

30 Bard's river

31 Pulitzer playwright of '67, '75, and '94

32 Lorax creator

33 Garden "snakes"

35 Woody directed her in "Deconstructing Harry"

36 Lag B'___

38 Golem

39 Egged on

44 Added lox, perhaps

45 Mariel's grandfather

46 Jew in the Holocaust, to Spiegelman

47 Mirages, often

48 Money for Primo Levi

49 Sign that glows at Loew's

50 "Exodus" name

51 Victor Borge, for instance

52 City near Chelmno

53 Where Joel Grey was born

54 Feminine ending

55 Swamps

56 It'll pass

Answers will appear next week