The News Herald (Willoughby, OH)
The Daily Commuter puzzle
ACROSS
1 Unpleasant
spouse
4 Nitwits
9 Clown around 13 Ending for who or
what
15 Chris with a
racket
16 “__ Breaky Heart” 17 Merlot or Chianti 18 Turning engine
part
19 Facial feature 20 Bold criminal 22 Only
23 Petting zoo
animal
24 __ down; reclined 26 Blood clot danger 29 Giant’s
characteristic 34 Long-legged bird 35 Bridge &
badminton
36 __ double take;
look twice
37 Bug spray 38 Actress Eva 39 Lancelot or
Galahad 40 Everyone 41 Simon &
Newman
42 Looks toward 43 Good enough 45 Like snowy
weather
46 Aide to Santa 47 Feral
48 Divan
51 Make fancier 56 TV’s “My Name
Is __”
57 Dinner course 58 Person, place or
thing
60 Biblical pronoun 61 Treasure cache 62 Very excited 63 Took legal action 64 Seamstress 65 Essential; crucial
DOWN
1 State-of-the-art 2 Gung ho 3 Man’s nickname 4 Calm
5 Off-white color 6 “…to St. Ives, I
__ man…” 7 Nudge
8 Baby transport 9 Actress Smith 10 Reverberate 11 Leg part
12 Tim Daly’s sis 14 Answer
21 __ fun at; ridicule 25 Gore & others 26 Leftover piece 27 Refrain syllables 28 Train tracks 29 Board game
players’ need 30 Biblical book 31 Royal decree 32 More resentful 33 Impudent 35 France’s region,
once
38 Chatty gettogethers 39 Making planks
smooth 41 Chum
42 __-in;
substitute 44 Factory __; in an unopened package 45 Actor Gene 47 Use a loom 48 __ up; arranges 49 Setting for
“Magnum P.I.” 50 Unrestrained 52 Actress
Winningham 53 Hard hit
54 Enjoy a long bath 55 Gigantic 59 Certain vote