NEA daily crossword puzzle

ACROSS

1 Squanders

7 Totally

12 Hold closely 13 Melancholy

14 Keep out of sight (2

wds.)

15 Memory glitches 16 Tips over

17 Sanskrit dialect 18 Positive

19 Warm the bench 20 Loud arguments 24 Absorbed 26 Ghostlike

27 Cooler

30 Cruise in style 32 1980 Turner launch 33 That senora 34 Knockout gas 35 Supplement

36 Soft matted wools 38 Mama sheep 40 Woman from Bonn 41 Son of Val 42 Driver’s pegs 46 Puppy bites 48 Delicate hue 49 Dictation pros 52 Beethoven opus 53 Calm 54 Young feline 55 British peers 56 Put in

DOWN

1 Hoofs it

2 Farewell

3 Gauzy

4 Money handler 5 Romantic deity

6 Baste

7 Mare’s offspring

8 Foul caller

9 Many oz.

10 Shelter

11 Birthday no. 13 Venetian blind unit 17 Throwers

19 Petty quarrel

21 Ocean predator 22 Strong breeze 23 Broadcast

25 Votes in favor 26 French I verb 27 Bridges or Goldblum 28 Software buyer

29 Big celebration 31 Shaped with an ax 37 Underground passage 39 Is frugal 41 Vaulted recess 43 Please greatly 44 Food consumer 45 Barely enough 47 Ca++ and Cl48 Steak cut 49 Compass dir. 50 Mild brew 51 Make mistakes 52 Kind of jump