Family Time Crossword

ACROSS

1. Box at an opera

5. It’s rifled?

9. (K) A parent

12. (K) Tiptop point

13. (K) Sound heard in “The Lion King”

14. (K) Add on months and months

15. (K) Thing in a restaurant

16. (K) Long, drawn-out adventure story

17. Kin of a 401(k)

18. (K) Full of pep

20. Part of a sports court, possibly

21. (K) Storage compartment

22. (K) Dirt clump

24. It might have blight

27. Take harshly

29. (K) One of the planets

32. Gas for signs

34. (K) Eye opener?

36. (K) Cabbie’s moneymaker

37. Single fact

39. (K) Item to chew

41. (K) Place to take a spin class

42. Heavy burden

44. Tripe or decay

46. Score after a putt, sometimes

48. Asian legumes (2 words)

53. (K) Bit of a circle

54. (K) Part of an old radio

55. (K) It offers a cue

56. Prefix with “duct”

57. British peer

58. Word with “each life”

59. (K) Cornfield unit

60. (K) It has a bark, but no bite

61. Hard to understand

DOWN

1. What some excuses are

2. (K) “___ mouth, insert foot”

3. Spliced thing

4. Long-distance commuter’s home

5. (K) Weaponry storehouse

6. A drawbridge’s waterway

7. (K) Orlando squad

8. Forward-thinking sort?

9. Racing spot through town (2 words)

10. (K) Beast like Shrek

11. (K) Part of many sandwiches

19. Popular card game

23. Clumsy sort

24. (K) Bring to an ___

25. (K) Pastoral expanse

26. Automobile, old-style

28. (K) More than medium?

30. (K) Put forth the effort

31. (K) Dress conclusion?

33. (K) Lady with a habit?

35. Good in rough circumstances

38. (K) Old firearm

40. (K) Mass of rowdy people

43. Submarine sensing system

45. Less than enthusiastic

46. (K) Make a smooth road

47. (K) Opera feature

49. Times gone by

50. High rating

51. Semiquaver, e.g.

52. (K) Pig mush Can you find the answer to this riddle within the solved puzzle? A or E, but not I, O, U or Y? SOLUTION ON WEDNESDAY