Puzzles

Crossword: ''Earning all A's''

Good grades, good grief

By MATT JONES | March 11, 2009

Across
1 Scorch
5 "___ a Liar" (song by the Bee Gees)
8 Dana, a.k.a. Queen Latifah
13 "Otello" baritone
14 That objeto
15 Lopsided
16 Dessert made with ladyfingers
18 Like some labor
19 Like the coolest celebrity chemist in the world?
21 Covered in frost
22 Some CFC's
23 Greens used for bra-stuffing?
27 Up and about
28 "Mike Tyson's Punch-Out!!" victories, briefly
29 ___ Jong Il
32 Detroit : Michigander :: Salt Lake City : ___
33 A.M.A. members
34 U.K. indie band named for a Soviet space dog
36 "Solaris" author Stanislaw
37 Life sentences?
38 More like dishwater?
39 "Equus" character Alan transforms to become useful to a lumberjack?
42 Cry on the set
44 Colorful desktop computer
45 Boozed it up with skeezy intentions?
49 Word after dirty or strawberry
50 Like slot machines, so to speak
52 Combatant with a saber
53 2000s caffeinated offshoot of 7 Up
54 Concert mementos
55 Fast food restaurant fixture
56 Close female relative
57 World's Fair kin

Down
1 Op. ___ (footnote abbr.)
2 It can be spiked or set, but not bumped
3 Indian tourist city
4 Scrapes from a motorcycle spill
5 Trophy for Sam Bradford, in 2008
6 Thoughtful pieces
7 "Hot Buttered ___" (1969 Isaac Hayes album)
8 "Hold on a bit..."
9 Proceeded as planned
10 Aquafina rival
11 Gets warmer
12 Show that released the edited version of "I'm on a Boat," for short
15 Dark parts of sunspots
17 She may be fair
20 'Dos in a blaxploitation film
23 Author Bellow
24 Commedia dell'___
25 Neeson of "Kinsey"
26 Its nickname is "Rubber City"
29 Place for a firing
30 Furniture retailer with a blue and yellow logo
31 Chico, e.g.
33 Prince who doubles as Wonder Woman
34 Zambia's capital
35 Menu type
37 Commodity negotiator
38 Distressed women?
39 Golf lesson topic
40 Fire-starting need
41 Late designer Versace
42 Freud contemporary
43 Friend that goes way back
46 Puts in grass
47 Santa Fe's st.
48 Hoard
49 Pal 'til the end, for short
51 Brit. honor