Across
- 5. Gets the ball rolling on this crossword’s draft (HU)
- 7. Friendship with command economy ended, private ownership my new best frenemy (RU)
- 8. My man is my man is your man, heard it’s her man too (SW)
- 11. Big bird lives where the streets are left hand drive (SP)
- 13. Much discussed by Weber, best characterised by Kafka (FR)
- 15. Subject matter for Arnie Pye (AR)
- 16. Gets into a lather (HI)
- 17. Terms adopted from foreign languages with little if any modification, and the key to this crossword’s answers
Down
- 1. Cain Marko, for one (HI)
- 2. Lumps found in 3-Down (AR)
- 3. Starts the morning full of beans (AR)
- 4. Job title for Polish metal band (HE)
- 6. Jub-Jub Bouvier, for one
- 9. Estival blood sucker (SP)
- 10. Verlaine, Ficca, Lloyd, and Smith (FR)
- 12. Italian “correction” to 3-Down (AR)
- 14. One in a hurly-burly with tusks all curly (RU)