NEA Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

1 Bungle 5 Wrench or saw 9 Popular pet 12 Care about 13 Best or Ferber 14 Thurman of “The Golden Bowl” 15 Allowing for change (hyph.) 17 Canine command 18 Boor 19 Allows to use 21 Long sighs 23 New Jersey cager 24 Fast food acronym 25 Cry of surprise 28 Deli order (2 wds.) 32 Not her 33 Baste 34 Nobel Prize city 35 Furrows 37 Spanish article 38 Kissin’ kin 39 Sir -- Guinness 40 “Watermark” singer 42 Gladiator’s hello 43 Behave 45 Steak temperature 47 Singing cowpoke 50 Tpk. 51 Levin or Gershwin 52 Required 58 Hoover or Aswan 59 Scamps 60 Comic strip dog 61 Jungfrau 62 Short-spoken 63 Round veggies

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1 Sitcom waitress 2 Gloss target 3 Hawaiian guitar 4 Long se5at 5 Mind 6 Goofy 7 United 8 Dipper 9 Caribbean island 10 Parson’s exclamation 11 Luggage IDs 16 A piece of cake 20 Dog in “Beetle Bailey” 21 Run -- (go against) 22 Intense 23 Full of the latest stories 24 Actress Sedgwick 26 Dot in a river 27 Unskilled laborer 29 Sesame Street grouch 30 Winter wear 31 Percolate 36 Lasting aftereffect 41 The A in BA 44 Skeptic 46 Famed fabulist 47 Verdi opera 48 Siberian river and range 49 Pack firmly 50 Remainder 53 Rhea cousin 54 EMT technique 55 Citrus drink 56 Narrow inlet 57 “Indeed!”