The Columbus Dispatch

CROSSWORD NO. 2 | MAKING PROGRESS

- By David Alfred Bywaters

ACROSS

1 Rainbow goddess

5 Anti-censorship

grp.

9 Really bad

14 “A dolphin sleeps with one eye open,” e.g.

15 In a few minutes,

say

16 Employee’s annual

goal?

17 Janitorial

innovation­s?

20 Novelist’s language

21 Smile segment

22 Sophs., in two

years

23 Horses with

speckled coats

25 “Boo-hoo!”

27 Address that contains dots, briefly

28 Revolution­s in

playground design?

34 Name that sounds

like an insect

35 Lack of difficulty

36 Pungent bulb

37 Costa ___

39 Fail to save

42 Miss, in Mazatlan:

Abbr.

43 Notions

45 Word after “sitting”

or “waiting”

47 Mask holder,

usually

48 Improvemen­t that makes paper money harder to counterfei­t? 51 Tiny, magical

being

52 “Dang!”

53 Collect together

55 Mud bath venue

58 Tuna type

59 Approach hastily

61 Positive outcome of child psychology?

66 Very, informally

67 Ages and ages

68 Steep, as tea

69 Gather little by

little

70 One may jump into

a garden

71 “Now, about ...”

DOWN

1 Possibilit­ies

2 Not cooked

3 Structures that are many blocks wide?

4 Unrelentin­g

5 Seller’s warning

6 Edible ice cream

holder

7 Proverbial bump’s

place

8 Rid of obstructio­n

9 Great Plains

tribe

10 Pallid

11 Fruits that Turkey produces the most of

12 Manual reader

13 Not as much

18 Entourage

19 Sound like a snake

23 Grading aid © 2021 ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATIO­N.

24 Frozen french fry

brand

25 Dismiss with

contempt

26 Clamors

29 Used to be

30 Cable co.,

often

31 People who have

hot meals?

32 Completely

destroys

33 Gobbles (down)

38 Satisfied cries

40 Gallic denial

41 Person with a stethoscop­e, briefly

44 Very arid

46 Intended

49 Qatar’s capital

50 Made null

54 African snake

55 Self-satisfied

56 Thing often stored in a weekly organizer

57 Just one chip,

perhaps

59 Ancient letter

60 Russia, once:

Abbr.

62 “... blessing ___

curse?”

63 Coffee,

slangily

64 Cautious acrobat’s

device

65 Lowest roll in

Monopoly

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