The News Herald (Willoughby, OH)
The Daily Commuter puzzle
ACROSS
1 Brewed
beverage 4 Whines
9 Plus
13 Be flexible 14 Sound portion of
a telecast
15 Thin
16 Picnic spoilers 17 Impasse 19 Hardwood tree 20 __ song; TV
show opener 21 Cranky
22 Church volunteer 24 Evergreen tree 25 Keeps a cooking
turkey moist 27 “The Sunflower
State”
30 Foreign 31 Blackboard
writer’s need 33 Laceration 35 Talon
36 “Never the twain
__ meet”
37 The Bee Gees
or Nirvana 38 Towel
embroidery 39 Window covering 40 Injections 41 Engraver 43 Steals
44 Boy
45 Reduce greatly 46 Up and about 49 Portugal’s
neighbor 51 Two-kind link 54 Covering 56 Border on 57 Breathing organ 58 Dirtiness 59 Critical; urgent 60 Quiche
ingredients 61 Magnificent 62 Mr. Leno
DOWN
1 Certain bills 2 Fan
3 Want __; newspaper section 4 Prepares spuds 5 Space modifier 6 Eden resident 7 School night
bedtime 8 Ground cover 9 Modifies 10 Flowery rings 11 __ and pepper 12 “You __ live
once!”
13 Lamb’s cry 18 Smell bad 20 “Later!” 23 One-dish meal 24 Collapse 25 Johann
Sebastian __ 26 TV’s “Kate & __” 27 Curly cabbage 28 Fear of heights 29 Multi-room hotel
booking 31 Blacken
32 “We __ It All”; Waylon Jennings song 34 Fling
36 Get rid of 37 “__ Land Is Your
Land” 39 Dangerous fish 40 Kind of dive 42 Sticks to 43 Negligible;
minor
45 Yuletide visitor 46 Up to the task 47 Punch 48 Orangey drink 49 Recipe verb 50 Stack 52 Intense rage 53 Had a bite 55 Alphabet trio 56 Part of speech:
abbr.