The Daily Commuter puzzle

ACROSS

1 Stomach muscles 4 Perhaps 9 Puncture

13 Male animal 15 Once more 16 Golfer’s target 17 Gary or Natalie 18 Start of a warning 19 Trick

20 Geometric figure 22 “Take __ leave it” 23 “Welcome __

World”; Elvis song 24 Crash into

26 Take a stand

against 29 Irreverent 34 Bottoms

35 New Orleans

athlete

36 Recline

37 Cub Scout

groups

38 Petit four coating 39 Old Roman wrap 40 New Year’s __;

calendar’s end 41 Pursue stealthily 42 TV’s Morley 43 Lifeguards, at

times

45 Meager

46 “Death Becomes __”; Meryl Streep film 47 Racing sled 48 Large Indonesian

island 51 Guarantee 56 Military branch,

for short

57 __ up; shreds 58 “__ makes two

of us!” 60 Svendborg

resident 61 Spooky 62 Quarterback’s

fear

63 Singles

64 Loses traction on

the road 65 Sorority letter

DOWN

1 CBS rival 2 Crude person

3 Business

transaction 4 Monsieur’s wife 5 Terrible pain

6 Yin and __;

opposite forces 7 High school sci.

class

8 Going into 9 Scampi 10 Promote; talk up 11 Too

12 Lager 14 Members of the

clergy

21 __ out; discard 25 Is __ to; probably

will

26 Tell the waiter

what you want 27 Irk

28 Window pieces 29 Gets an “F” 30 Chain piece 31 High in the sky 32 African nation 33 Emotional 35 Lasting mark 38 Repeats 39 Natural abilities

41 Girl’s nickname 42 Long story 44 Irritates by

rubbing 45 Women’s

accessories 47 Gruesome 48 Self-defense

sport

49 As dumb __ ox 50 Wind indicator 52 Look for 53 Calcutta garb 54 Burn slightly 55 __ other; one

another 59 Fight result, for

short

Created by Jacqueline E. Mathews 2/27/21