NEA daily crossword puzzle

ACROSS

1 Large vat

4 Horse’s gait

8 Pub order

11 Dryly humorous 12 Wed. follower 13 Trend

14 Byron work

15 Desert havens

16 Big truck

17 Level best

19 Battery terminal 21 “Barefoot Contessa”

Garten

22 Tar’s reply 23 Portents

26 Eclair filling

30 Gush over

31 So far

32 Forest grazer 33 Billiards stick 34 Famous numero 35 “Star Wars” guru 36 Runway site 39 Surgical tool

40 -- out (withdraw) 41 Formal greeting 42 “So long!”

45 By mouth

48 Farm animal 49 Khartoum’s land 51 Candied item

53 “The Name of the Rose”

author

54 Sagas

55 ER staffers

56 “The,” to Wolfgang 57 Not daffy

58 Poached edible

DOWN

1 Couple

2 Pakistan’s language 3 Russian veto word 4 Tibet’s capital

5 Depose

6 Before, in combos 7 School papers

8 Frizzy hairdo

9 Fixed the table 10 Margin

12 Saturday morning fare 18 Extract ore

20 Clear, as profit 22 Traffic stopper 23 Porpoise relative 24 Molokai neighbor 25 Always

26 Small change 27 Fusses

28 Took a taxi

29 Letter opener 31 Round dwelling 35 Ketch kin 37 “Annabel Lee” poet 38 Musical works 39 Gives credit 41 Reinforce 42 Mimicked

43 Cut into cubes 44 -- Stravinsky 45 Valhalla host

46 Old harp

47 Yin complement 50 Work -- -- sweat 52 Flavor enhancer, for

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