NEA Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

1 Food fish

5 “That’s obvious!” 8

Valley

12 Pang

13 Like some humor

14 Roof part

15 Fracas

16 Pub order

17 Singer – Adams

18 Discourage

20 Banister post

22 Santa’s helper

23 Embers, finally

24 Once-divided city

27 Police car warning

31 Dinner check

32 Writer – Bagnold

34 Goose egg, in sports

35 Ever’s partner

37 Very willing

39 Bear’s foot 40 Tough fabric

42 Way out

44 In time gone by

46 Triumph

47 Molten rock

49 Gemstones

52 First magnitude star

53 – Paulo

55 Modem speed unit 57 Khayyam or Sharif

58 Terminate

59 Kind of moth

60 Ibsen heroine

61 Airline to Stockholm

62 Tense

DOWN

1 Soap purchase

2 Sour

3 Loafer, maybe

4 Bird dog

5 Towering over

6 Web addr.

7 “Laughing” animal

8 “Golly!” (2 wds.)

9 Stow cargo

10 Malicious

11 Born as

19 Vogue rival

21 Curve shape1

24 Harmful thing

25 Poet’s black

26 Pharaoh’s river Account

28 execs

29 Pitchers’ stats 30 Currently

31 Small fry

33 Piled-high sandwiches

36 – Falls

38 Faucet problem

41 Paramount rival

43 Permit

45 Watering places

47 Post-it message 48 Culture dish goo

50 Praise

51 Carried a tune

52 Wernher – Braun

54 Literary miscellany

56 Sunrise

to sunset