NEA Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

1 Cool

4 Grabbed a chair 7 Big tubs

11 Snake River loc. 12 Excited

14 Where Tehran is 15 Building wing 16 “Instead of” word 17 Prom rental 18 Icon 20 Humidity problem 22 Fish eggs 23 Chromosome

material 24 Chichen Itza

builder 27 Crunchy

30 Poke

31 Flower bed 32 Prez after Jimmy 34 Fodder grass 35 Faucet problem 36 Walleye fish 37 Sheep-loser of

rhyme (2 wds.) 39 Night sky streaker 40 Aberdeen boy 41 Web addr.

42 It turns litmus

blue

45 Panama explorer 49 Hang around Clump of dirt 52 Motel of yore 53 Sea eagle 54 Greenish-blue 55 Fall mo. 56 Many parents 57 Riviera summer 58 Take in

DOWN

1 Hotfoots it 2 Lazily

3 Take stealthily 4 Wild West bar 5 Sprightly 6 Sock part 7 Lavis5h country

homes

8 Dry

9 Blah

1

10 Peak covering 13 Spicy 8 candy 19 Thin nail 21 —— for the 6

money Spee2d 24 meas. 25 Speedy steed

1 26 Seesaw (hyph.) 27 Groom a poodle 28 Strait-laced 29 Unite 31 Prophesize 33 Badminton need 35 Real bargain 36 Gather opinions 38 Dinnerware items 39 Hold gently 41 “Das Boot”

craft (hyph.) 42 Thunderstruck 43 Pasternak

woman 44 Tenderhearted 46 Life stories, for

short

47 A single time 48 Poker payment 51 Director Ang -50