written and edited by John J. Bulten 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 Show Errors Clear Letter Clear All ACROSS 1. Sleeping-bag filling from the ceiba tree: rare 4. Public or Adams: 2 wds., abbr. 7. Mitsubishi Group camera giant 10. Convicted felon who helped Barry buy his Hyde Park home 12. Fifties puppet now watchable on DVD 14. Homeopathic cold and allergy reliever 15. President who shared the Nobel Prize with Mandela, for short 16. Racy dresser: colloq. 17. Lurk or slink, perhaps 19. Law-enforcement portrayal by Telly Savalas 22. Classically American stringed instrument 23. Eggy source for vision-support compounds lutein and zeaxanthin 24. Genuine and authentic, like the local sahib 25. Atlantic Council foreign-relations think-tanker Frederick 27. Author and putative inventor of the word "robot" 29. Russian sub sunk in 2000 by its own torpedoes 32. Kenyan relative left behind by Barack H. Obama to marry in America 35. New York netter 38. Definitive WWII battle 39. Overcasual nickname for the Prince of Wales 40. City manager of Bell, Calif., "highest-paid government employee" in America 41. Loaded with carbonation 42. Downloadable notable, the author hopes: hyph. 43. Tortuously perverted 44. SUV from Pontiac DOWN 1. Elliott and Cameron, e.g. 2. Herman Cain's area of expertise 3. With "off", make hurriedly or stop hurriedly 4. Global head of news at Reuters, who eschews the word "terrorist" 5. Japanese poems, with seventeen syllables, often seasonal: var. 6. Ineffable hypothetical physics particle that doesn't know up from down 8. Snatch from a pedagogical lyric: hyph. 9. The "catastrophe" of Israel's founding, to some Muslims: Arabic 11. Motile hormone that dilates blood vessels or contracts muscles 13. Quintessential nerd who started out as a one-episode joke 18. Ophthalmological specialty that remains competitively priced 19. Change after reading "The Gulag Archipelago", perhaps: var. 20. White House resident who died mysteriously on July 16, 1999: abbr. 21. Knapsack astride one's packsaddle (or homonym of 37-Down): rare 22. Defendant in the Supreme Court's affirmative-action decision 26. German state capital captured by Patton in WWII 28. Early promoter of a "Madoff scheme" 30. Alternate name of the first British "Ariel" satellite: 3 wds., abbr. 31. Michael Moore's 2007 rearrangement of chairs in the health-care debate 32. Convicted felon who worked closely with Rudy and was nearly tapped by Dubya 33. Form of Buddhist meditation upon paradoxical koans 34. Containing particular nitrous joins 35. Labyrinthine author who wrote an entire story about a cockroach 36. Baath Party name that sounds like a request to verify the truth, "so"? 37. Eskimo conveyance PDF Solution