THE DAILY COMMUTER
ACROSS
1 Big wine holder 5 Mars rover grp. 9 Monastery leader 14 Baking appliance 15 Finished 16 Window curtain 17 Burrowing garden
pest
18 Earth
19 Lightly powders 20 Famed trumpeter:
2 wds.
23 Bird’s home
24 Web pop-ups,
e.g.
25 Wife of Odysseus 27 Elderly
28 Makes a
connection 32 Nintendo
dinosaur 35 Fishing line
holders 37 Swim-bike-run
race, for short 38 Specialized lingo 39 Screw up
40 Killed
42 Permitted 43 Soft-petaled
flower
45 Contacts by
beeper
46 Miss the boat:
2 wds.
48 Curtain holder 49 Colander 52 Chicago hrs. 55 The one there 58 Nearly complete:
2 wds.
60 Solemn vows 62 “Elder” Roman
statesman 63 Slurpee
competitor
64 Say aloud
65 The sun, to skin 66 Lament
67 Rips
68 “The __ is
history”
69 NYC luxury retailer
DOWN
1 Pause indicator 2 Steer clear of 3 Vends 4 Mid-leg joint 5 Said “OK”
silently 6 Bird-related 7 Start a tennis
set
8 Military big guns 9 Do sums 10 Asian sultanate 11 Pedestal’s
bottom 12 Chooses
13 Trial
21 Result of a poker
tie: 2 wds. 22 Potting __ 26 Travel document 27 “I see what you
did there!” 29 Male deer
30 Toledo’s Great
Lake
31 Religious no-nos 32 Southern
pronoun 33 Creme-filled
cookie 34 Three-stripers:
Abbr.
35 Alamo offering:
2 wds. 36 Hosp. trauma
centers 41 Young boy 44 Mysterious glow 47 Purim heroine 48 As a last __ 50 Picture 51 Musical tones 52 Apres-ski drink 53 Move furtively 54 Adolescents 55 Promote publicly 56 Despise
57 “__ boy!” (encouraging words) 59 Lowers, as a
light 61 Alums-to-be:
Abbr.
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 20 letters left over. They spell out the alternative theme of the puzzle.