The News Herald (Willoughby, OH)
The Daily Commuter puzzle
ACROSS
1 Dry as a desert 5 __ throat;
bacterial infection 10 Do a farmer’s job 14 Beasts of burden 15 Depart
16 __ reviews; great
critiques 17 Ending for gab or
song
18 Smitten
20 Amt. of vanilla
to add
21 TV’s “Empty __” 22 Wedding cake
levels
23 Uneven
25 “__ Now or
Never” 26 Short-horned
grasshopper 28 Eerie
31 Nervous
32 Beard remover 34 Reiner or Estes 36 Skillful
37 Lucifer 38 Carousel or
Ferris wheel 39 Thee 40 “Wonderful!” 41 Flood barrier 42 Unreliable people 44 Military awards 45 Auction offer 46 Wet
47 Mistake
50 Jeff & Beau, to
Lloyd
51 __ de cologne 54 Skin mole 57 Kitten’s cries 58 Farm building 59 Like Roma Downey & Liam Neeson 60 Minstrel’s
instrument
61 Ran fast 62 Window pieces 63 Middle C & A-flat,
e.g.
DOWN
1 Like a baby’s skin 2 Old ladies? 3 Courteous
4 Suffix for exist or
differ 5 Most devious 6 Past, present or
future
7 Huck Finn’s float 8 Perón or
Longoria
9 Hound or
hamster
10 Glorify 11 Overdue
12 Go __; review 13 Says “I do” 19 Say
21 Too inquisitive 24 Autumn leaf color 25 Sunbeam
appliance 26 Disney’s “__ and
the Tramp”
27 __ these days;
eventually
28 Old Russian
ruler’s title 29 Detective 30 Alpine warble 32 Knocks 33 Feasted
35 Birds’ partner, in
phrase 37 Brought charges
against
38 Team from Ohio 40 Avoid by going
around 41 Garlands
43 Be plentiful 44 Calendar
pages 46 Antlered
animal
47 Flows back
48 Bring in the
harvest 49 Infrequent
50 Twirl
52 Amiss; wrong 53 Employs 55 High-pitched bark 56 Málaga Mrs. 57 Third Mon. in
Jan. honoree