NEA daily crossword puzzle

ACROSS

1 Decorated tinware 5 Ridge over the eye 9 Former Chinese leader 12 Muffin choice 13 Thunder

14 Venomous snake

15 Do a tune

16 Boundless

18 Nudging

20 Long jacket 21 Billionth, in combos 22 Border

23 Illuminate 26 Champagne category 30 Clean air org.

33 Cad’s rebuke 34 Racehorse parent 35 Scout destination 37 Inkling

39 Pub order 40 Garfield’s housemate 41 Eagle’s nest 43 Moppet

45 Lemon candy 48 Georgia city 51 Garbage haulers 53 Fable

56 Tien Shan range

57 -- -- step further 58 Woodwind 59 Let slip

60 Put in stitches 61 Quirks

62 Kind of prof.

DOWN

1 Recipe meas. 2 Celestial hunter

3 Sri -

4 Car’s need

5 Military prison

6 Mr. Ely

7 Numskull 8 Correspond

9 Chief

10 Italian wine city 11 Sheik’s cartel 17 Deadens 19 Nonverbal OKs 22 Keyed up

24 Helen of Troy’s story 25 Disappear gradually 27 Narrow inlet

28 Net address 29 Pigskin prop 30 Nature: pref. 31 Tablet

32 Left Bank pal

36 Kind of tea 38 Opera set in Egypt 42 Typos

44 Gold brick

46 Looks at impertinently 47 Bell tower sounds 48 Sporty wheels 49 Lotion additive 50 Talon 51 Tournament passes 52 River sediment 54 Ginza buy

55 Huge bird of myth