The Daily Commuter puzzle

ACROSS

1 Loud continued noises 5 Sudden muscle contraction 10 Winter flakes 14 Part of a plant 15 Mischievous sprite 16 Leo XIII or Pius XII 17 Haywire; wrong 18 Analyzed again 20 Tit for __ 21 Brooklyn team 22 Metal-headed golf clubs 23 Nonsense 25 __ nutshell; briefly 26 Wooden shoes 28 Carve a statue 31 Wed on the run 32 Steps 34 “Be quiet!” 36 Adder’s sign 37 Dinner course 38 Stringed instrument 39 Element whose symbol is Sn 40 Jeans fabric 41 Friendlier 42 Fisher and Cahill 44 Giggle 45 Cuttlefish secretion 46 Upper body 47 Mitt 50 Incite; push on 51 Allow 54 Mississippi steamers 57 Wild hog 58 Take __; assume control 59 Narrow waterway 60 Meanie 61 __ to pieces; lost it 62 Penniless 63 __ Daly

DOWN

1 “Phooey!” 2 Midwest state 3 Traveling toward the Arctic 4 Pig’s home 5 Binges 6 Devoutness 7 Lumberjack’s tools 8 Dinnertime, for many 9 __ culpa 10 __-bound; like school notebooks 11 Advice to Nanette 12 Use a key 13 Unites 19 Three __ two is one 21 Musical notation 24 Klutz’s word 25 Like a petit four 26 Two months ago: abbr. 27 TV’s “Kate & __” 28 Con artist’s plan 29 Science of mind and behavior 30 Midafternoon 32 Skillets 33 Actress Larter 35 In this place 37 Look for 38 Commits perjury 40 Eatery 41 Bookish fellow 43 Turn aside 44 Comfortably warm 46 Carried 47 Expand 48 Not taped 49 Kitchen appliance 50 Hurricane wind 52 Make money 53 Poplar or pine 55 Canister 56 Half and half 57 Study of plants: abbr.

Created by Jacqueline E. Mathews