NEA Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

1 Pfc. boss 4 Sink part 8 Network 11 Fleece 13 Quasimodo’s creator 14 Cassowary kin 15 Not pro 16 News article 17 Face the target 18 Kitchen gadgets 20 Shopping plazas 22 Throw in 23 Single no more 24 Whim 27 Upholstery fabric 30 Sacred bird of Egypt 31 Refusals 32 Artfully shy 34 Entreat 35 Mire

36 Isle off Sicily 37 King’s place 39 Charley horse 40 “Friends” network 41 Shogun’s yes 42 Coca-Cola rival 45 Defiled

49 Set down 50 Back muscles, for short 52 Busy European airport

53 Get wrong 54 Composer — Satie 55 Windstorm 56 Malt brew 57 Knights of the realm

58 Proof ender

DOWN

1 Exchange one thing for another 2 Absent 3 Shopping bag 4 Bronze medalist’s place

5 Deep tracks 6 ID info 7 Saddle horns 8 Have on

9 Put out heat 10 Work shirkers 12 Fragrant shrubs 19 Ben & Jerry rival 21 Hubbub

23 Pay period 24 Small untruth 25 Help a crook 26 Almost, in verse 27 Sotto — 28 Home of the Bruins 29 Thieves from 31 Now, to Caesar 33 Candied goody 35 Modern sculptures 36 Novel closer 38 Hosp. workers 39 — ammoniac 41 Shucks corn 42 Urgent request 43 British peer 44 Fiery heap 45 Cook in a wok 46 Baghdad’s country 47 She, in Cherbourg 48 Tinted 51 Jackie’s second