NEA Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

1 Equitable

5 Airline to Stockholm

8 Unit of resistance

11 City near Canton

13 Mont Blanc or Jungfrau

14 “Diamond Lil”

15 Likes and dislikes

16 Amazon menace

18 Boors

20 Achilles’ story

21 Masked hero

23 In time gone by

24 – out (relax)

25 Betray a confidence

27 Sharif of the movies

31 Cease

32 Puppy plaints

33 Rover’s pal

34 Delightful place

36 Italian wine city

38 Happy sighs

39 Window part

40 Backpack contents

41 Big extinct bird

42 Barely manage

44 Column order

46 Rust or patina

49 Russian poet – Akhmatova

50 Thickly

52 Moved cautiously

56 Add– – (extras)

57 Zip

58 Tractor pioneer

59 Betrayer

60 Health resort

61 Actual

DOWN

1 What Jack Sprat could not eat

2 Alias 3 Returns org.

4 Turbine part

5 Exhausts

6 Muhammad or Laila

7 New growth

8 Former science magazine

9 Big laugh (hyph.)

10 Hoover Dam lake

12 Close

17 Cool

19 Greenery

21 “The Prisoner of –”

22 Nash of limericks

23 Forgo 24 Prez’s stand-in

26 Church part

28 Florida port

29 Committee type (2 wds.)

30 Bonheur or Parks

35 Must-haves

37 Put a crease in

43 Laments loudly

45 Consumer advocate Ralph –

46 Scent

47 Lucy Lawless role

48 Part of MIT

49 Auel heroine

51 Sassy talk

53 “Golly!”

54 Distinct period

55 Mid-Atlantic st.