THE DAILY COMMUTER PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 Abbreviation before a short version

5 Baja’s opposite 9 Jacobson of

“Broad City” 13 Uninteresting

person

14 Place for

discussion 16 Close to 17 Animal with

antlers

18 “__ Jacques” (French children’s song) 19 Food drive

donations 20 Off on a jaunt 23 Letters before

an amount due 24 Put out 25 Passage between England and France 29 Temper, as steel 33 Batter’s statistic 34 Bottle part 37 Classic video

game company 38 Simon Cowell’s

show, for short 39 Subject

41 Pink Lady liquor 42 Motif

45 Wide ribbon

accessory 46 Classroom

furniture piece 47 Messy

handwriting 49 Works that

spoof 51 Competing sides 54 Texter’s “ha!” 55 1987 Tom

Clancy novel 59 Residence 60 Composer Ned 61 Crowds 64 Opportunist 65 Trap with a net 66 Think (over) 67 Roosters’ mates 68 Expectorate 69 Armed Forces

branch

DOWN

1 “Very funny”

network 2 Building site 3 Lug with effort 4 Gets back 5 Wealthy

6 “Tank Girl”

actress Petty 7 Famed Roman

fountain 8 Mysterious

glows

9 Older than old 10 Hit in the head with a pitch 11 Explosion sound 12 W-9 form

org.

15 Smart bunch 21 Chaney who played Frankenstein 22 Fish in a melt 25 Has a talk 26 Note in a soprano’s range

27 Sheer

28 Some summer

babies 30 Anxious to

please

31 Come up 32 Sausage units 35 Auditor, often:

Abbr.

36 Smooch 40 Timothée of

“Dune” 43 Makes a

difference 44 Pitcher by a

basin

46 Difficult problem 48 Animals’

hideouts

50 Male cat

2/17/24 52 Natural satellites 53 Handbag

feature

55 Do some

modeling

56 “Heck yes!” 57 Spice Girl

Halliwell 58 Tart-tasting 59 “Well, I’ll be” 62 Social justice

abbreviation 63 Cagey