CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Across

1 Mail in

6 Hair-raising experiences?

11 Bare-bones sleeper 14 Egypt’s Mubarak 15 Font that’s a homophone for a mermaid 16 Color

17 *Closest to the rail, at Churchill Downs

19 Mitch McConnell’s org.

20 Balance sheet category

21 “Love Story” author

Segal

23 The Big Easy, locally 26 Works

27 Get one’s bearings 28 Refines, as ore 30 Loads

31 “Dandy for your teeth” old toothpaste

32 Guffaw

35 Ambulance letters 36 Comment about routine work ... and hint to the ends of the answers to starred clues

38 Wee, in Dundee 39 Apply gently 40 Novgorod nos 41 Financial news channel

42 Judge of baseball, for one

44 Pakistani metropolis 46 Jolson classic 48 Dispensed (with) 49 Privilege of playing first, in golf

50 Kid’s retort

52 Latin 101 verb

53 *It may be used with a grunt or two

58 Network soliciting donors

59 Spry

60 Stubborn 61 Atlanta-to-Charleston dir.

62 Evaluated

63 Everly Brothers song sleepyhead

Down

1 Pi follower

2 Ages and ages

3 Casper winter hrs. 4 Consumes eagerly 5 Connects logically 6 See-through sheets 7 Once, old-style

8 Social reformer Jacob 9 Magazine with “The Lighter Side of...” features 10 Where apnea might be diagnosed

11 *Suzanne Somers’ “Three’s Company” role 12 Prevention unit 13 Many Microsoft employees

18 “It __ fair!”

22 Tire track

23 Famous

24 Bakery draw 25 *Barely triumphs 26 Napa prefix 28 Overflow

29 Some mil. brass 31 “Understood” 33 Eclipse shadow 34 Country singer Musgraves with six Grammys 36 Cochlea site

37 Child

41 Loire Valley sight 43 2021, por ejemplo 44 __ cod: Pacific Coast catch

45 “Totes __!”: really cute 46 Fitness magazine 47 Development sites 48 Like morning grass 50 Somewhat

51 Part

54 JFK alternative 55 Pacino and Capone 56 Water __

57 Hurricane center