NEA daily crossword puzzle

ACROSS

1 Pickling solution

6 City in New York

11 Ice hockey locales 12 Righted a wrong 13 Cover crop

14 Twitched

15 With eyes wide open 16 Grate upon

17 Ocean sighting 18 Above, in verse 19 Long-legged wader 23 Droops

25 Check for fingerprints 26 Dove’s aversion 29 Shed a few tears 32 Jellyfish habitat

33 In time past 34 Stuffed animal

35 To date

36 Thunder god

38 Early garden?

40 Seize

41 Some

42 Norway’s patron saint 46 Sect

48 Rigg or Ross 49 Japanese theater 52 Of the universe 53 Broccoli bit 54 Funny feeling 55 Course 56 Out-of-date

DOWN

1 Makes tea

2 Stately

3 Toughens up 4 Designate

5 Vane dir.

6 Beehive State players 7 Slothlike

8 India -

9 Decent grade

10 Put 2 and 2 together 11 Jai -

12 Partly closed

16 Junk mail addressee 18 Mean person

20 Like a bee

21 Shrink’s reply (2 wds.) 22 RBI or ERA

24 Behave

26 Lightbulb unit 27 Turkish official 28 Black bird 30 Whirlpool

31 Change hair color 37 Happens again 39 Loud sounds 41 Touched down 43 Tibetan monks 44 Pastis flavor 45 Not run from 47 Luau strummers 48 Spanish title 49 Fast food acronym 50 The works 51 Anaconda 52 Drinking vessel