NEA Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

1 Mineral springs 5 John, in Ireland 9 Contractor’s figure 12 Refuses to 13 Alice’s chronicler 14 Chemical suffix 15 Operatic prince 16 North Dakota’s capital 18 Eyeglass 20 Kelp 21 Flower lover 22 Excitement 23 Tricked 26 Still on the market 29 Under par 30 Pull down 32 Passion 34 Wildebeests 36 Tell all 38 Really bad coffee 39 Tomato jellies 41 Fast horses 43 Switch positions 44 Victimize 45 Pulpits 48 Dwell

52 Most erratic 54 Sports event 55 — you with it? 56 Prefix for partly 57 Poet’s black 58 Flaming

59 What — can I do? 60 Bumper mishap

DOWN

1 Go in the water 2 Comic swamp critter 3 Erelong

4 Disco flasher 5 Dark fur 6 Huron neighbor 7 Capp and Jolson 8 Roamers 9 Freighter hazard 10 Early Peruvian 11 Feint 17 Remote

19 Grant territory 22 Tolstoy heroine 23 Make a tunnel 24 Radius’ companion 25 Arithmetic sign 26 WWW addresses 27 Capital of Peru 28 Beat soundly 31 Basics 33 McMahon and Sullivan 35 CIA agent, slangily 37 Wingding 40 Out of the rain 42 Parented 44 Loosen 45 Cracked 46 Insignificant 47 Reproduced 48 Tenets 49 Legendary ox 50 Computer graphic 51 Dress type 53 Ocean dweller