ACROSS

1 Blasting stuff

6 Studies intensely

11 Earthy color

12 Indian coin

13 Oscar winner Witherspoon

14 Ham it up

15 Cheese partner

16 Yacht spot

18 Paint buy

19 Before today

20 Scot’s cap

21 PC key

22 Pi, phi, or psi

24 To boot

25 Try a plane

27 Gin flavoring

29 Cry of distress

32 Mythical piper

33 Singer Torme

34 Boston team, familiarly

35 Curved path

36 Small worker

37 Pilot’s guess: Abbr.

38 Hold up

40 Boom type

42 Draw out

43 Underway

44 Quite serious

45 Daily events

DOWN

1 Ordinary

2 Glacial period

3 Francis Ford Coppola film

4 Legal matter

5 Electra’s brother

6 Coffee add-in

7 Toddy base

8 Francis Ford Coppola film

9 Tin and titanium

10 Handled

17 Made of clay

23 Golf need

24 Completely

26 Was blue

27 Black suit

28 City on the Rio Grande

30 Newtonian concern

31 Forces, as payment

33 “Who Says” singer John

39 Tennis feat

41 One - kind