The Daily Commuter puzzle

ACROSS

1 Soft drink 4 Blaze residue 9 “There was an old woman who lived in a __...” 13 Small fruit pie 15 Sandbank 16 Summon a cab 17 Store away 18 Yuletide visitor 19 Skater’s oval 20 Cowardly 22 Annoys 23 Carry 24 Rush 26 Prickly plant 29 Raincoats 34 Funt or Ludden 35 Like umbrella

weather 36 Feel miserable 37 Rude slob 38 Soviet labor

camp 39 One of the

martial arts 40 Trip stopover 41 Modify 42 West Point

student 43 Unnecessary 45 Unser and Foyt 46 Motorists’ org. 47 Tongue color 48 As slippery __

eel 51 Fleeting; brief 56 Ladder step 57 Climbing

plants 58 Reclines 60 Give a traffic

ticket to 61 Chutzpah 62 __ up; absorb 63 Recipe verb 64 Overwhelming

desire for more 65 “Love __

neighbor...”

DOWN

1 Half-qts. 2 Dobbin’s dinner 3 __ up; support from beneath or behind 4 Items listed in a will 5 Layered rock 6 Make sharp 7 Dines 8 Making rough wide cuts 9 Wild shrill cry 10 Barber’s focus 11 Pig’s comment 12 Forest animals 14 Social media

service 21 Person, place

or thing 25 Like dangerous

winter roads 26 Home of logs 27 Without

assistance 28 Duplicate 29 Business

transactions 30 One not to be

trusted 31 __ cologne;

perfume 32 Passenger 33 Job openings 35 Grooves 38 Sparkling 39 Wild dogs 41 Montgomery’s

state: abbr. 42 Isn’t able to 44 Hazard 45 Doused 47 Irritate 48 Rainbows 49 Clubs or hearts 50 Opposed to 52 Above 53 Wet spongy

ground 54 Hilarious fellow 55 Slangy reply 59 Wild blue

yonder