CROSSWORD NO. 2
ACROSS
1 The “D” in CD-ROM
5 Ergo
9 Slightly open
13 State whose name
contains a greeting
14 Stage in a lunar
cycle
15 Bahama ___
(rum cocktail)
16 Early bird’s target
17 Step after “lather”
18 A party to
19 Saltshaker’s
companion
22 Wolfs down
23 Curiosity rover’s
org.
24 Usually endangered marine reptile
29 Was hurtful, like
criticism
32 Mutated gene
33 Box on stage?
35 Fa-la link
36 Dangerous game
of chance
40 Wedding vow
41 It’s game
42 Tenth first family
43 Religious
subgroups
46 Sources of valuable
metal
48 Mars : Romans ::
___ : Greeks
50 Butterfingers’
utterance 51 Like a zebra, or two words that can precede the starts of 19-, 24-, 36- and 46-Across
56 Auctioneer’s cry
57 Set straight
58 Move like molasses
60 An athlete may
take one in protest
61 Gets into shape,
with “up”
62 Writer/director
Ephron
63 Does some sums
64 LAX guesstimates
65 Movie critic’s
assignment?
DOWN
1 Wall Street index,
with “the”
2 Funny Face flapjack
chain
3 Beget
4 Participates in a
triathlon, say
5 Intense longing
6 Put up, as Christmas lights Global power that broke up in ‘91
8 Welcome at the
door
9 Surrounded by
10 Novelist who created Elizabeth Bennet and Emma Woodhouse 7 11 Love, in Lima
12 Sought office
14 Condition before
staining, perhaps
20 St. ___ Girl beer
21 Rapper Lil ___ X
24 Bollywood wraps
25 Get away from
26 Otherwise known
as
27 Slow, musically
28 Mopey music genre
30 ___ Dame
31 Sharon of “Cagney
& Lacey”
34 Disparaging
remarks
37 Persistently
criticize
38 Kind of node or
gland
39 Features of “G’day”
and “cap’n”
44 Sports team deals
45 Brief moment,
briefly
47 Places to warm up
after skiing
49 Footwear for a
Senator
51 007
52 Much of the time
53 Jazz singer Simone
54 ___ one’s own horn
55 Cornell University
co-founder Cornell
56 Reggae relative
59 Musician’s gift