NEA Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

1 Follow with bloodhounds 6 Wails in lamentation 11 Trace element in salt 13 Vice opposite 14 Method 15 Existing in one from birth 16 Jabber 17 Mature 18 Fruit cooler 21 Dashboard items 23 Listener’s need 26 The “Velvet Fog” Torme 27 Before, to poets 28 Speck on a globe 29 Bridle attachment 31 Name in elevators 32 Coiffure choice 33 Ease 36 Tool storage 37 19th Greek letter 38 Cable channel 39 Stashed awa 40 Prepares potatoes 42 Winding curve 43 Bad prefix 44 Make a choice 46 Soak up 49 Close 53 Colombian capital 54 Book copier of old 55 Spiteful 56 Breakfast bread

DOWN

1 “Whether — nobler ...” 2 Trigger’s rider 3 Commercials 4 Metro area 5 Made bread 6 Playing cards 7 Sea eagle 8 Greek H 9 Crackpot 10 Perceive 12 Dominion 13 Small bottle 18 Attack from concealment 19 Noted oracle site 20 Omitted syllables 22 Add oxygen 23 Legacy 24 Straightens 25 Updates a watch 28 Promissory note 30 Gesture 34 Beauty shops 35 Harbor doubts 40 Big bash 41 Corsica neighbor 43 Debatable 45 Poi plant 46 Alphabet trio 47 Glamorous wrap 48 Mil. rank 50 Narrow inlet 51 Small ammo 52 So far