ACROSS
1 Zilch
5 Be boastful
9 Out of bed
10 Company symbols
12 Disturbed
13 In the know
14 Halloween scarers
16 Pewter component
17 Urgent call
18 Halloween scarers
20 Snare
22 Tortoise’s rival
23 Eat away
25 Opera piece
28 Settle by yeas and nays
32 Halloween scarers
34 Train stop: Abbr.
35 Band blaster
36 Halloween scarers
38 Black card
40 Welcome
41 Energy choice
42 Abrasive powder
43 Unexciting
44 Houston and Rayburn
DOWN
1 Japan, to the Japanese
2 Help out
3 Some bucks
4 Dove’s stance
5 Explosion
6 Squabble
7 Christie of mysteries
8 More gruesome
9 Charlotte — (rich dessert)
11 Reason
15 Capsize
19 Trumpeter Baker
21 Paper pack
24 Rx amounts
25 Accumulate
26 Drunkard, in slang
27 African runner
29 High regard
30 Everyone else
31 Mean
33 “If—a Rich Man”
37 “—La Douce”
39 River stopper