Tasty Tuesday Crosswords

Take five and elevate your wordplay prowess by solving these cleverly constructed crosswords. Tuesday puzzles bring some surprises that will give your mental sunapses a well-deserved boost.

The clues and themes aren't giveaways, but you won't find anything you can't handle. The themes — "Tsar Search," "Fowl Play," "Capital Liquidity," "Compound Fracture," "Apostrophe Catastrophe," etc. — allow you to test your knowledge as you solve the conu...