NEA Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

1 LX 6 Sketch 10 Gone to bed 12 Weirder 14 Fracas 15 Soaked up rays 16 Pack animals 18 Koch and Wynn 19 Breezy greeting 21 Pro votes 23 Cribbage card 24 Simple card game 26 Mete out 29 Colorado tribe 30 Wire gauge 32 Golf tees 34 Within sight 36 Pony up 37 Diamond stat 38 Air pollution 40 Passing grade 42 Nail container 43 Ugh!

45 Merely 47 Aurora, to Plato 50 Spring blooms 52 Sudden pang 54 Keen insight 58 Prince Charles’ sib 59 Zebra feature 60 Char the surface of 61 No-fat Jack

DOWN

1 Took a break 2 Cyclones’ inst. 3 Really big tees 4 Physicist Nikola — 5 Cowardly 6 Chartered 7 CPA employer 8 Emcee’s device 9 Shortfall 11 Green seed 12 Auction site 13 Hwys. 17 Mexican music style

19 Dove shelters 20 Girder (hyph.) 22 Token amount 23 Wimple sporter 25 DJ gear 27 Onion kin 28 Marsh stalker 31 Strong alkali 33 Sink down 35 Oater star — Rogers 39 — counter 41 Ousts 44 Shuttle complement 46 Seize power 47 LAX info 48 Possesses 49 Half a beef 51 Stockholm carrier 53 Brady Bill opposer 55 First space lab 56 Ecol. watchdog 57 After expenses