The Daily Commuter puzzle

ACROSS

1 Taps gently 5 Twirl 9 Illegal way to

make money 13 Sugar substitute 15 Roofing piece 16 Family member 17 Sudden

increase 18 Kinfolk 20 Dance form 21 Body of water 23 Most unusual 24 Child’s school

assignment 26 Org. for Hawks

and Hornets 27 Yearn 29 Basement 32 Up and about 33 Idaho’s capital 35 Bowl clumsily 37 Make a tiny cut 38 Agreements 39 Chimney pipe 40 Female bird 41 Keep a cooking

turkey moist 42 Waterbirds 43 Do the job of a

shoemaker 45 “Away in a __” 46 “Ode __

Nightingale” 47 “Rigoletto”

composer 48 Maximum 51 Ancient 52 Everyone 55 Down-to-earth 58 Golfer Els 60 Cry from a sty 61 Vienna’s nation:

abbr. 62 Furniture dings 63 Too inquisitive 64 Meadows 65 Sporting event

DOWN

1 Bothersome

person 2 Greenish-blue 3 Paint thinner 4 Hang limply 5 Alley cat 6 Dessert choice 7 Ailing 8 Proximity 9 __-bound; like a

school notebook 10 Home for Fred

Flintstone 11 Hairy animals 12 Ship’s pole 14 Smaller of two

amounts 19 Piece of

furniture 22 Corncob 25 Pass over 27 Corned beef

concoction 28 Actor Ed __ 29 Refer to 30 “I pledge __ to

the flag...” 31 Awaken 33 Foundation 34 Fall month:

abbr. 36 Suds 38 Spacious and

magnificent 39 __ off; repel 41 Give a helpful

lift to 42 Eden, for one 44 Thickset; burly 45 Singer Tillis 47 Electric current

units 48 “Once __ a

time...” 49 Threesome 50 “A __ home is

his castle” 53 Find appealing 54 In case 56 Actor’s signal 57 As cool __

cucumber 59 Curved edge