NEA Crossword Puzzle

ACROSS

1 Sharpened point

4 Moby Dick foe

8 Blew the whistle

12 Actress -- de Armas

13 Trillion: Prefix

14 State confidently

15 Cooper’s channel

16 Locks

17 Magritte or Russo

18 Waffled

20 Dig

22 Mork’s superior

23 Deli loaf

24 Hunting hawk

28 Dark brew

31 Heroic tale

34 Zippy the Pinhead’s word

35 101 and I-40

36 San Antonio cager

37 “The Facts of Life” star

38 Mother of Horus

39 Name, to Pierre

40 Joined metals

42 Edgar Allan

-44 Canasta plays

48 Portrait painter

51 Tile mural

52 Erosion loss

53 Exclude

55 Golf score

56 Lotion ingredient

57 Greet the dawn

58 Pilot’s dir.

59 Hang fire

60 Stepped on

61 Mandate

DOWN

1 Cheesy chip

2 Hidden

3 Stripes

4 Minerva, in Greece

5 Crisis point

6 Meyers of “Kate & Allie”

7 Zinger

8 Linger

9 Dines too well

10 Comedian Jay

11 Started a gunfight

19 Succeed (2 wds.)

21 40 cup brewer

25 Orpheus’ harp

26 Anthracite

27 Got in debt

29 Luau memento

30 Slalom run

31 9-digit ID

32 PFC mail drop

33 Spunk

35 Takes the bus

40 NBA coach -- Unseld

41 Got melodramatic

43 Lubricated

45 Jacket part

46 Ross or Rigg

47 Nail cousin

48 On the double

49 Thespian’s need

50 Grounds for a suit

51 Japanesesoup

54 Old space station