cross word

ACROSS

1 Perch, e.g.

5 ___ and kin 9 Bother

12 Division preposition 13 Flaring star 14 Needle hole 15 Howls 16 Gadget’s rank (abbr.) 17 Dawson or Cariou 18 Rebuker’s sound 20 Wrist rhythm 22 Loafers

25 Grows old

27 Excel

28 Baseball boss 32 French friend 33 Bathing vessel 34 ___ de cologne 35 Gives notice 38 Beginning

40 Quick letter 41 Knitting maneuvers 42 Flowersless plants 45 Detergent brand 46 Hatchet’s kin 47 Family man 50 Kitchen or major ender 54 Tax expert (abbr.) 55 Give forth 56 Chessman 57 Highest part

58 Not on time 59 Unspecified amount

DOWN

1 Trivial lie

2 ___ jam (two words) 3 Filthy area

4 Acted as emcee

5 Make a sweater 6 Charged particle 7 Appliances for couch potatoes

8 Take place

9 Singer Carter 10 Supportive votes 11 Cowboy Autry

19 GI’s social club

21 Its birthday is 7/4 22 Skyrocket

23 Actor Cronyn 24 Elevator inventor 25 Entertain

26 Chatter idly 29 Transmission item 30 English title 31 Furrows 33 Explosive inits. 36 Country lodging 37 Mahalia Jackson’s music 38 Place for mud baths 39 Potatoes

42 Truth 43 Convention, for short

44 Cut grain 45 Inevitable outcome

48 “I ___ Rock” (two words) 49 Hole 51 Excessively 52 Baseball’s Seaver 53 Make last