CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Newt “teenagers”

5 Jerseys and Guernseys

9 Philanthropic fellow, part of the year

14 Palindromic Indian bread

15 Middle layer of your eye

16 Spreads you can use on breads

17 Small beasts from the Amazonian canopy

20 Jolly green fellow?

21 Settle the bill

22 Tool used on the border

24 Pitcher’s procedure

27 Suspected something fishy was going on

30 Face or side lead-in

32 Persian fairies

33 Horizontal mine entrance

34 Sixth-century Chinese dynasty

35 Nation on the Caspian Sea

36 Walloped, oldstyle

37 Snooker aid

38 Big type of cod

39 Affectionate attention

40 “Stop, already!”

41 It’s always longer than a foot

42 Really enthusiastic sort

44 Unvarying, in music

46 Career peaks

47 Monster from Tolkien’s Middleearth

48 Take away

50 Silent and unobtrusive

57 Where Joan of Arc was martyred

58 Asgard’s head honsho

59 Tie

60 Perch for the night

61 Butte’s larger brother

62 ___ meridiem

DOWN

1 Lennon’s trio

2 On-line help page feature

3 T in Sparta

4 Eel catching activity

5 Amazonian arrow poison

6 Tandoor, basically

7 Whip mark

8 Hammett’s Spade

9 Voiced, in phonetics

10 Sticky resin used in paint

11 Pre-marital handle intro

12 Poodle variety

13 Working equine, often

18 Cambodian currency

19 Drug derived from poppies

22 Nail file materials

23 Go over the edge, in a way

24 Atwood, Bellow or Munro

25 Seismically elevate

26 Leans hard on

27 ___ the beans

28 Result of vandalism, maybe

29 Have a mad crush on

31 Essential keyboard key

34 Vanilla-flavoured soft drink

36 In short supply

40 Intestinal cul-desac

42 Get a hard copy from the web

43 One of a whole bunch

45 Pouty expressions

48 Whipped up

49 Ancient Memphis deity

50 Abbr. on an airport display

51 Sault Ste. Marie, slangily (with “the”)

52 Quid pro ___

53 Selleck of “Magnum, P.I.”

54 Jug’s giant brother

55 Occupied a pew

56 Feta source