DAILY CROSSWORD
ACROSS
1 Use for support
7 PC key below ~
10 Distort, as data
14 Calm and Restore skin care brand
15 MLB stat
16 Valley west of Sacramento
17 Garlic bread option
19 Site with a Craft
Supplies section
20 “Spider-Man” trilogy director Sam
21 “Come on down!” announcer Johnny
22 Column of super heated ash and sulfur dioxide during an eruption
25 Superficial layer
26 Statistician Silver
27 No there anymore
28 Word that can follow goal or detail
32 __-countrymusic
33 One of a pair on a library shelf, as well as one of a pair in each set of circled letters
36 Joey pal of Piglet
37 Saddle attachments
39 “Can’t you take a __!?”
40 Flow slowly
41 Broad neckties
44 Nightshade relish
48 Geological period
49 Cries miserably
50 Casual gettogether
51 Reading on a
decibel meter
56 Elm or ash
57 “Noah kept bees in the ark hive,” e.g.
58 Act as a gobetween
59 Utters
60 18-wheeler
61 Begins, as a project
DOWN
1 Lab animal in a maze
2 Night before
3 Superman foe Luthor
4 Jack Black film with the tagline “Meet your ancestors”
5 Available for purchase
6 Recognize
7 Rail rider
8 Core group?
9 Drill insert
10 Herman whose chart is topped with a giant “E”
11 Panko-breaded chicken dish
12 __ salts: bathwater additive
13 Hockey Hall of Famer Gretzky
18 Actor-Sharif
21 Chose
22 Starbucks size
23 Memo phrase
24 Abel’s brother
25 Battery unit
27 Need for some hybrids
28 Approves
29 Like stale expressions
30 Ages
31 Ellipsis element
33 Liquid diet component
34 Anise-flavored aperitif
35 Cartel whose “O” does not stand for “oil”
38 Kitchen invaders
39 “On the spot” spot
41 Part of a basic Latin conjugation
42 Showroom pitches
43 Dog with a strong herding instinct
44 Battery units?
45 Verdi composition
46 Amble
47 Yet to be paid
51 Steve Inskeep’s network
52 French yes
53 Sue Grafton’s“__ for Vengeance”
54 Superlative suffix
55 Sign between Cancer and Virgo