ACROSS

1 Pago

Pago

Person

7 Cooking mint

11 Come into view

12 Rocker Collins

13 Pane material

15 Follow

16 Trial group

18 Nasty

21 A lot

22 Twister shape

24 Co. abbr.

25 Travel aid

26 Compete

27 Basement

29 Not too spicy

30 Spotted

31 Cotton pod

32 Once more

34 pasture growth

40 Trade fair

41 Find in a reference book

42 Freshman, usually

43 Hot and humid

DOWN

1 Attach a patch

2 French friend

3 Gents

4 Picks an entrée

5 Extreme pain

6 Anchor’s offering

7 III humor

8 Cry of insight

9 USO

audience

10 High trains

14 Bungle

16 Music’s Quincy

17 Cry of surrender

19 Smithy sight

20 Sam of “Jurassic Park”

21 Quirk

22 Distant

23 Was a pioneer

25 Juicy fruit

28 Entice

29 Madison’s successor

31 Intolerant sort

33 Piercing tools

34 Ran into

35 Devonshire river

36 Chimp, for one

37 Alias letters

38 Total

39 Bond, for one

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