NEA Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

1 Rigatoni kin 5 Cornbread 9 Dune buggy kin 12 Sacked out 13 Hertz rival 14 Novelist Rita — Brown 15 Ruler before Galba 16 Small barks 17 Clinch 18 Noble 20 Enthusiasm 22 Wrath 23 Whiskey grain 24 Bizarre 27 Good judgment 30 Moderate 31 Antenna type 32 Moo goo — pan 34 Space widths 35 Charlotte of “Bananas” 36 Join a certain way 37 Affront 40 Iota preceder 41 Hosp. staffers 42 Scurry along 43 Turmoil 46 Put on the block 50 Tax shelter 51 Zillions of years 53 Matador’s foe 54 Seek information 55 Done for 56 Wool givers 57 — kwon do 58 Room service item 59 Pinch of salt

DOWN

1 Grey of Westerns 2 Wild goat 3 Prefix for “trillion” 4 Put on a pedestal 5 Check endorser 6 Roman poet 7 Touch of frost 8 Prose pieces 9 In the thick of 10 Mexican menu item 11 Go off course 19 Give it a go 21 Bright color 23 Teeming 24 Average grade 25 Rajah’s wife 26 Org. 27 Huh? 28 Curved molding 29 Soda fountain treat 31 WWW addresses 33 Spud st. 36 Sharpened 38 Marquee notice, for short 39 Disquiet 40 — -tac-toe 42 Sled dog 43 Edict 44 — Major 45 Do a fall chore 46 Paquin of “True Blood” 47 Dubuque’s state 48 Vein contents 49 Snack 52 Royal pronoun