8. Founding Father Franklin 9. Greenbacks, for example 10. “For Me and My ___”
12. Book of Samuel personage 13. Color 14. Building partition: abbr.
16. Government’s solution to criminal banking activities? 18. Pick up the ___
20. Los Angeles institution: abbr.
21. Whom America’s future may depend on 22. Critical 23. Military rank: abbr.
24. Small distance: abbr.
27. Big laugh: hyph. 28. Goes against
34. Training routine 35. “Financial Armageddon” writer 36. Notorious Strip
37. Balances 38. Free-thinking
1. Once lost, it is rarely recovered 2. Number of Supreme Court justices today
3. Name for the government’s big spending bill 4. Be excessively concerned with trivial details 5. Polite name for jail
6. Conservative side
7. Unauthorized border crossers, costing billions
11. Gold: symbol 15. Notorious chairman from the ’60s 17. Oakland baseball team: abbr. 19. Conservative commentator
23. Person born in the U.S., usually
25. Tea-party state: abbr. 26. ___ Chi Minh (old-time dictator) 27. Exaggerated talk 29. Eighteenth-century political theorist Edmund 30. Sharpened
31. Hunger for
32. Falsify for PR reasons, perhaps 33. ___ in a blue moon
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Book, new film show prophecy fulfilled before our eyes
Displaying court cards.
Nick, Christian, Pet, whatever is most familiar.
How far does it reach?
The old standards.
More sloganeering.
Don't peak at the answers!
On a day that will not be forgotten.
Featuring a colorful and wide-open array.