NEA daily crossword puzzle

ACROSS

1 -- du jour

5 In a snit 8 Molasses-based drink 11 Libertine

12 Door

14 GI address

15 Round tent 16 Clothier -- Strauss 17 Corp. officers 18 Nevada resort lake 20 Sees eye to eye 22 Time to celebrate 23 Ayn or Sally

24 Greek marketplace 27 Part of the eye

29 Big --, California 30 Most luxurious 34 Lightest element 37 Nieces and cousins 38 Cry of woe 39 Circumvent 41 Arthurian lady 43 Travel on powder 44 Doctor’s office 46 Chocolate bean 49 Meditation practice 50 Island off Italy 52 BBs

54 Raggedy doll 55 Swedish auto 56 Las Vegas rival 57 Sunbeam 58 Graduate degs. 59 Swatch

DOWN

1 Snoop

2 Oaf

3 Ambiance

4 Tie up a horse 5 Rumpus

6 Wood chopper

7 Aria performer

8 Poe’s visitor

9 Hiked the price 10 Rock’s “cushion”

13 It joins the Euphrates 19 Fish-to-be 21 Carelessly hasty 24 Blond shade 25 Fellow

26 Law (abbr.) 27 Cousteau’s islands 28 Hightail it

30 Links org.

31 Make do with

32 Army address 33 Explosive letters 35 Deluge 36 Vintage tunes 39 Alias initials 40 Deputies 41 “Maria --” 42 Dingbat 43 Strikebreakers 44 Autocrat 45 Chowder morsel 47 Pious ending 48 Old Dodge model 51 Pasture sound 53 Caveman Alley --