THE DAILY COMMUTER
ACROSS
1 Fraudulent
scheme
5 Roku alternative 9 Christmas sleigh
driver
14 Metal thread 15 First-year law
student
16 Easy to
understand 17 Notion 18 Actress
Swenson 19 Morning wakerupper
20 Shoe with a coin
in it
23 Plaything 24 Notable time 25 Overseas trade
org.
26 __ out
28 French lady’s
title
34 Church table
37 Hammer’s
target
38 Hijab, e.g. 39 __-back
40 Stairs over a
fence
41 German “one” 42 At any time 43 Abbr. before a
short version 44 Speak in public 45 Savory bits on
rye bread 48 Droop 49 Short-lived
craze
50 Ingest
53 Crow’s noise
56 Era of Donatello
and Raphael 60 Dull pains 62 Skin woe 63 Amaze
64 “Bye!”
65 Fruit rind 66 Hardens 67 “Spencer” actress’s nickname 68 Screws up 69 Sequoia, for one
DOWN
1 Tinder gesture 2 Apple beverage 3 Combat venue 4 Not nice 5 Worked hard 6 Without ill intent 7 Star in Lyra 8 “Frozen”
snowman 9 Frightens
10 __ or nothing 11 All tidied up 12 Poi root 13 Fighting force 21 2024, for one
22 Napoleon’s fate 27 Cuts off
28 Fabric named for
an Indian city 29 Hotel cleaners 30 Crude processor 31 “Star Wars”
general
32 Dryer trap stuff 33 If not
34 Phillies infielder
Bohm
35 Volcano output 36 Level 40 Performance
platform 44 Likelihood
46 Poland’s capital 47 Artist’s stands 50 Go in
51 Less than 90
degrees 52 On edge 53 Whiskey-aging
vessel
54 Pitching stars
55 __ one’s appetite 57 Back of the neck 58 Big laptop brand 59 Helper: Abbr. 61 Look at
This is a theme puzzle with the subject stated at right. Find the listed words in the grid. They may run in any direction but always in a straight line. Some letters are used more than once. Ring each word as you find it and when you have completed the puzzle, there will be 15 letters left over. They spell out the alternative theme of the puzzle.