NEA daily crossword puzzle

ACROSS

1 Tiny creature (Var.) 6 Atlanta team 12 Basketball players 14 -- the Hun 15 Glamorous 16 Passes along 17 Summer quaff 18 That, to Juanita 19 Oaxaca article 21 Doze

23 U.S. Army rank 26 Daughter’s brother 27 Tweak

28 Wild

30 Tropical

31 Fall mo.

32 Port near Kyoto 33 Stage musing 35 Frigid

37 Koppel or Knight 38 Written reminders 39 Cereal grain 40 Prior to

41 Modern

42 Goal

43 Magazine fillers 44 Steelers org.

46 -- Moines

48 Stood up to 51 Get some air 55 Erase

56 Shoelace hole 57 Band member, often 58 Prank

DOWN

1 -- of Base

2 Painter -- Ernst

3 I, to Nero

4 Sweater letters 5 Waterless

6 Revealed

7 66 and I-80

8 Map collections

9 By way of

10 Famous cathedral town 11 Stockholm carrier 13 Picturesque

19 Give some slack 20 Prompt (2 wds.) 22 Sunroof or A/C 24 Scraped against 25 Givers opposite

26 Fake

27 Denials

28 Racer A.J. -

29 Take on cargo 34 Fluffier

36 Tote the irons 42 Church official 43 White as a ghost 45 Throw a party for 47 New Age singer 48 Banned bug spray 49 Want ad letters 50 Winter complaint 52 Elev.

53 Wahine’s welcome 54 Catchall abbr.