The Daily Commuter puzzle

ACROSS

1 __ out; invites for a date 5 Astute; clever 10 Tiff 14 Send a letter 15 Spooky 16 Classic board

game 17 __ 500; annual

car race 18 RVer’s stop 20 Hideaway 21 Courtroom

panel 22 Kicks out 23 Prize 25 Mutt 26 Thwart; block 28 __ with;

tolerates 31 Cone-shaped

home 32 Pierces 34 Eggy drink 36 Cut hair 37 Stringed

instrument 38 Actor Norman 39 Rooster’s mate 40 “Andersen’s

Fairy __” 41 Nerve; spunk 42 Braggart 44 Thrifty

shopper’s item 45 Prefix for pay

or caution 46 Moby-Dick or

Shamu 47 Loosen a knot 50 Mortgage, e.g. 51 ABC competitor 54 Like wellinsulated walls 57 Baby __; tiny

bit of progress 58 Window glass 59 __ cologne 60 Frau’s husband 61 Get rid of 62 García & Gibb 63 Nervous

DOWN

1 Surrounded by 2 Rational 3 Abducting 4 Wily 5 Safe; not at risk 6 Listened to 7 Fighting force 8 Van Winkle of fiction 9 Nickname for Margaret 10 Scrubs 11 Adder’s sign 12 Mom’s sister 13 Koppel & Cruz 19 Drives out 21 Green gem 24 Cry 25 Havana’s land 26 Athlete’s foot

symptom 27 Wild brawl 28 Close friends 29 Unforeseen 30 __ vaccine;

Salk’s finding 32 Gritty residue 33 Foot digit 35 Secluded valley 37 Bouquet holder 38 Umpire’s cry 40 Worn out 41 __ and groan;

complain 43 Gave one’s two

cents’ worth 44 Rubs enough

to make sore 46 Allen or Guthrie 47 Postmaster

General’s agcy. 48 Ark builder 49 Melody 50 Deafening 52 Titanic’s doom 53 Lively 55 Split __ soup 56 Hightailed it 57 Feminine

pronoun