The Daily Commuter puzzle

ACROSS

1 Get rid of 5 Tumor 9 Argument 13 Feasts with hula dancing 15 Take out 16 Gift wrapper’s need 17 Concur 18 Large terriers 20 Taft’s monogram 21 Moving truck 23 Clap cuffs on 24 Pays attention to 26 __ West 27 Back teeth 29 Small, but aggressive 32 Haywire 33 Grieve 35 Holiday entrée, perhaps 37 Car blemish 38 Nat and Natalie 39 Roll call response 40 __-shaped; oval 41 On the __; honest 42 Crowd 43 Take for granted 45 Woods 46 Prefix for view or heat 47 Reddish dye 48 “Sesame __” 51 Needless fuss 52 WWII president 55 Adviser 58 Numerical comparison 60 Middle-__; neither young nor old 61 NFL officials 62 Item in a package of bedding 63 Fishing poles 64 Slangy reply 65 Martial __; judo, karate, etc.

DOWN

1 Cabbage dish 2 Downs or Grant 3 Residents of our planet 4 Like bills awaiting payment 5 __ and groans; complains 6 “What Kind of Fool __?” 7 Knight’s title 8 Mississippi riverboats 9 Long gazes 10 Not at all ruddy 11 Ridicules 12 SAT, for one 14 Cuts off 19 Empty a sink or a pool 22 Want __; newspaper section 25 Vane direction 27 Created 28 Plato’s last letter 29 Gas or coal 30 From that time on 31 Linear measures 33 Relocate 34 Spanish cheer 36 Encounter 38 Burial place 39 Musical instrument 41 Entices 42 Respects 44 Goes on a shopping spree 45 __ up; disgusted 47 Severe 48 Skin mark 49 African nation 50 Had regrets about 53 Atkins or South Beach 54 Goes bad 56 Mr. Iacocca 57 “Son __ gun!” 59 Cry of discovery

Created by Jacqueline E. Mathews 10/22/18