13. Big store events

15. Colorado nickname

17. Performs some light surgery?

18. Letters after ars

19. Jar head

20. Times to call, in ads

21. Dogged

22. Half: Prefix

23. Setting for sedges

24. Fusses

25. Parade sight

26. Use Crayolas

27. Support base

28. Many, many

31. Twerps

32. Picks up

33. Period

34. Finger __

35. __ Maria Remarque, author of "All Quiet on the Western Front"

36. Some email letters

39. Is short

40. Security

41. 1953 Pulitzer-winning playwright William

42. Like some hours

43. Choreographer Cunningham

44. Peak sacred to Rhea

45. Perfect Sleeper and others

48. Letdown

49. Clothing makers

1. Breath freshener brand for over 100 years

2. Joyce Carol with two O. Henry Awards

3. U. V.I.P.

4. __ characters (common Chinese writing)

5. Requiring

6. Cutter

7. Beguilers

8. Bit of land

9. Singer Elliot

10. Abbr. in a cockpit

11. "Spanglish" costar

12. Mechanic's guess

13. Symbol seen in viola music

14. Furlough

16. Piaf and Wharton

21. Ties Isaac Asimov wore

22. Pass rushers, briefly

24. Dots on a map

25. Meat

26. Closest dwarf planet

27. Hippie sign-off

28. Concedes

29. Kelp et al.

30. Battle of Put-in-Bay setting

31. Formal

33. Test administrator

35. Absorbed

36. Flavorings in some liqueurs

37. Setting of Hill Air Force Base

38. Part of L.C.D.

40. Holiday hires

41. Answer at a door

43. Elided address

44. Team with a bridge in its logo

46. Screeners at LAX

47. H.M.O. personnel