FAMILY TIME CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1. Yuletide visitors 5. (K) That girl 8. Rope-fiber source 12. ___ number (catalog datum) 13. (K) Sing without words 14. On ___ with (even with)

(2 words) 15. (K) Good thing to wash with 16. (K) Withdraw, as the

tide 17. (K) Building location 18. Haphazard urban

growth 20. (K) Place for a dude 22. (K) Musical scale’s fifth note 23. Frequently, poetically 24. (K) Opposite of better 27. (K) Peach center 28. (K) Tool with punch? 31. (K) Instrument among the reeds 32. Zippo 33. ___ Pet (pottery/plant brand) 34. (K) Writing tip? 35. (K) Seat for a baby 36. (K) Swiss monetary unit 37. (K) Certain sib 38. (K) Underhanded 39. ___ Ruins National Monument, N.M. 41. (K) Writer’s dash 45. (K) Color of overcast weather 46. (K) Landbound bird 48. (K) Break a horse 49. (K) Last single-digit number 50. (K) Twin of Bert Bobbsey 51. Hipbones 52. (K) Settles the bill 53. (K) One no longer crawling about 54. Pt. of many a business

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DOWN

1. (K) Air ball, e.g. 2. (K) ___ the standings (in first place) 3. (K) Thing to shift 4. No-win situation 5. (K) Clam cover 6. (K) Where spokes meet 7. Draw into an argument 8. (K) ___ a clue (doesn’t know) 9. Big, big-budget film 10. (K) School subj. 11. (K) Historic

introduction? 19. Source of despondency 21. (K) Toward the rudder 24. Didn’t show, didn’t

place 25. ___-Wan Kenobi of “Star Wars” 26. Fitting name for a

thief? 27. (K) Spot on a die 28. You might say it when you get it 29. (K) “W” in the

standings 30. Lancelot du ___ (knight of the Round Table) 32. Coming into existence 33. Type of crossword clue 35. (K) Whopper 36. ___ in the ointment 37. Eyelid swellings 38. (K) Transfer to another track, as a train 39. (K) Solo sung in an

opera 40. Wild and crazy, as the Three Stooges 42. (K) Circle of angels? 43. Arab League dignitary 44. ___ tide 45. U.S. economic measure 47. ___ Tse-tung Can you find the answer to this riddle within the solved puzzle? What makes dad dashed? SOLUTION ON WEDNESDAY