FAMILY TIME CROSSWORD

ACROSS 1. (K) Need but not have 5. Make one’s pick 8. McCartney of the Beatles 12. Tangelolike fruit 13. (K) Thanksgiving wedge 14. Aviation prefix 15. Super-long shoestring not for shoes 17. (K) Opposite of pros 18. (K) Breakfast buffet item 19. Breed or type 20. (K) Hearing, sight or touch 21. (K) Guy’s opposite in the country 23. Grandson of Adam and Eve 25. “___ go bragh!” 27. (K) Type of sandwich with no bread 28. (K) Country dads 31. (K) Ice cream parlor treat 33. Mountain climber’s guide 35. (K) Target for a ring tosser 36. (K) Home in Mexico 38. Claim on a property 39. Dusty, dry and desertlike 40. (K) Abbr. on ambulances 41. (K) Places to hold valuables 44. Bert Bobbsey’s sister 46. Word before “chi” or after “mai” 49. (K) Small landmass with a beach 50. Stick-to-it-iveness? 52. (K) Kind of tide 53. (K) Poor-but-passing grade 54. B&B’s 55. Skater Brinker of kidlit 56. (K) Starfish feature 57. (K) Red veggie DOWN 1. Old car-maintenance job 2. Eagerly expectant 3. (K) Blocking up, as a drain 4. (K) Something to assemble containing a model 5. Off-white gem 6. Word with “nit” or “cherry” 7. (K) Golf ball prop 8. (K) Rates of speed or steps 9. A billion years (var.) 10. Coffeehouse vessels 11. (K) Not win 16. ___ Abner 20. Jayvee athlete, often 22. (K) You-me link 24. (K) Spaceship org. 25. What psychics claim to have 26. (K) Regret 27. (K) Sign of use 28. In mint condition 29. (K) George of the Jungle’s sidekick 30. (K) ___ Bernardino 32. (K) Some cards in the deck 34. Bark beetle’s target tree 37. (K) Poster or transmitter 39. Flows very slowly 40. (K) Texas-to-Kentucky direction 41. Trigonometric function 42. Sailing on the ocean 43. Custard dessert of Spain 45. “Pardon me” 47. (K) “... in ___-horse open sleigh” 48. “Meet Me ___ Louis” 50. Letters on toothpaste tubes 51. Sis or bro, for example Can you find the answer to this riddle within the solved puzzle? Perfect thing to eat after church? SOLUTION ON WEDNESDAY