CROSSWORD BY THOMAS JOSEPH

ACROSS

1 Yule display

7 High cards

11 Bank worker

12 Brusselsbased org.

13 Game quest

14 Use incisors

15 Felt

17 Deep cut

20 Bonnie’s partner

23 Burma’s first prime minister

24 Humiliating failures

26 Major lang.

27 Lamb’s father

28 Braying beast

29 “

greetings!”

31 Social page word

32 Maryland players, for short

33 Hardy heroine

34 Two-person cutting tool

37 Soft mineral

39 Playing marbles

43 Sky shade

44 One of TV’s “Friends”

45 Some charity

46 Seasonal quaff

DOWN

1 Pennies: Abbr.

2 Stephen of “The Crying Game”

3 North Pole worker

4 Conflict

5 On this spot

6 The Emerald Isle

7 Heralds in a carol

8 Christmas treat

9 Seventh Greek letter

10 Boar’s mate

16 Cons

17 Party attendee

18 Year, in France

19 Christmas treat

21 Rx amounts

22 Road curves

24 Winter window coating

25 McKellen of “X-Men”

30 Fruitcake ingreadients

33 Nasal sound

35 Identical

36 Wildly eager

37 Sched. place-holder

38 Everyone

40 Malleable metal

41 Earth-frendly prefix

42 Slump

TS ELIOT

(1888-1965)

American-English poet, playwright, literary critic, and editor.

For last year’s words belong to last year’s language. And next year’s words await another voice. And to make an end is to make a beginning.

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