The Daily Commuter puzzle

ACROSS

1 Poke hard

4 Heed the alarm

clock

9 Use a PC

keyboard 13 Lubricates

15 “If I knew you were coming, I’d’ve baked __…” 16 Circle dance 17 Partner of tried, in

phrase

18 Ballot caster 19 Watches 20 Absurd

22 Imitate

23 Spanish surrealist Salvador

24 “Yes, Virginia, there __ Santa Claus”

26 Bits of parsley 29 Absolutely

certain

34 Wading bird 35 Half-quarts 36 Messing, to

friends

37 Jewelry store

purchase 38 Legends 39 Rosemary or

thyme

40 Pull a vanishing

__; disappear 41 Composer Porter

& others 42 Actress Keaton 43 Annoyed

45 Took a voter

survey

46 Rainy

47 Pause in activity 48 Revealing skirt 51 Crucial

56 Many hardware

stores

57 Rent long-term 58 Actress Donna 60 Encounter 61 Paths

62 Play area

63 Finds a total 64 Feeling of

anxiety

65 Hosp. personnel

DOWN

1 __ down; make a

note of 2 Haughtiness 3 Unhappy 4 Judges’ mallets 5 Intestinal bacteria 6 “Little Man __”;

Jodie Foster film 7 Stringed

instruments 8 Goes on

resolutely 9 Seuss’ “__ in the

Hat”

10 Toy with a string 11 Get ready, for

short

12 Not difficult 14 Mailing

21 Spice rack bottle

next to saffron 25 Malia, to Sasha 26 Small fragment 27 Cost

28 Carries on 29 Stacked

30 Billfold items 31 Just right 32 Novelist Jules

33 Subsided

35 Like pastel colors 38 Burrito wrap 39 One of the

Clintons 41 Average mark 42 Bonehead 44 Licorice pieces 45 Most chaste

47 Misplaces 48 Family member 49 Like eclairs 50 Have to have 52 Heartless 53 Stab of pain 54 Close

55 Harbor bird 59 Dental deg.

Created by Jacqueline E. Mathews 2/23/21