Trowel

Base Value: 2; Worth 6 points in the Wine Cellar

You find a slip of paper with a mostly white 15-by-15 grid on it. You are staring at it when Doctor Lucky walks in.

"Hello there," he says cheerfully. "I'm afraid I haven't been a very good host. Would you like something to drink? Maybe some Symmetry Mist, or perhaps some D8?"

"Don't you mean, 'Sierra Mist' and 'V8'?"

"Oh, yes. Quite right."



Across

1. Excesses of fat
6. Low rumble
11. TV network
14. Answer
15. Uproar
16. Garden tool
17. Famous moralist
18. Detest
19. Guest House
20. Common plastic
22. Ran
24. Attire at some parties
25. Malignancies
26. "The Abduction of the __ Women"
29. "La Isla __"
30. Ashes, for instance
31. Golfer Els
32. Bricklayer's tool
35. Culture medium
36. Former Yugoslav
37. London's Underground, for short
38. Second person
39. Show desire, perhaps
40. Sap
41. Eastern belief system
43. Warm
44. Embodiment
46. Catches
47. Users of a chemical deterrent
48. Left-hander
52. Jr.'s son
53. Very, musically
55. Gas station brand
56. Common messenger
57. Close to
58. Ancient Greek physician
59. Member of Cong.
60. Old Russian VIPs
61. Show scorn

Down

1. German woman
2. Lascivious look
3. Church part
4. More spotted
5. Transfers liquid (var.)
6. African nation
7. Bath gear
8. Expression of excitement
9. Mystery
10. Wyoming city
11. Small pets
12. Mistake
13. Dispatches
21. Get older
23. Drunkard
25. Like Chinese, for one
26. Linger
27. Ship of Greek mythology
28. Makeup artist, of sorts
29. Sweeper
31. Ragged
33. Piece of bad news?
34. Gainsay
36. Shades of red
37. Sanitation worker
39. It might say "Welcome"
40. IDs for GIs
42. Consumed
43. Greek letter
44. Mideast rulers
45. He had "Common Sense"
46. Bad company
48. Headliner
49. Kind of shirt
50. Oak genus
51. Habit
54. Meadow