by Myles Mellor • edited by John J. Bulten 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 Show Errors Clear Letter Clear All ACROSS 1. Civil War president 5. "Red Alert" writer Jerome 8. Founding Father Franklin 9. Greenbacks, for example 10. "For Me and My ___" 12. Book of Samuel personage 13. Color 14. Building partition: abbr. 16. Government's solution to criminal banking activities? 18. Pick up the ___ 20. Los Angeles institution: abbr. 21. Whom America's future may depend on 22. Critical 23. Military rank: abbr. 24. Small distance: abbr. 27. Big laugh: hyph. 28. Goes against 34. Training routine 35. "Financial Armageddon" writer 36. Notorious Strip 37. Balances 38. Free-thinking DOWN 1. Once lost, it is rarely recovered 2. Number of Supreme Court justices today 3. Name for the government's big spending bill 4. Be excessively concerned with trivial details 5. Polite name for jail 6. Conservative side 7. Unauthorized border crossers, costing billions 11. Gold: symbol 15. Notorious chairman from the '60s 17. Oakland baseball team: abbr. 19. Conservative commentator 23. Person born in the U.S., usually 25. Tea-party state: abbr. 26. ___ Chi Minh (old-time dictator) 27. Exaggerated talk 29. Eighteenth-century political theorist Edmund 30. Sharpened 31. Hunger for 32. Falsify for PR reasons, perhaps 33. ___ in a blue moon PDF Solution