Philippine Daily Inquirer

CROSSWORD PUZZLE

- | BY RICH NORRIS AND JOYCE NICHOLAS LEWIS

Across

1 Annie Lennox, e.g. 5 Phishing, say

9 Start of many a “Jeopardy!” answer

12 College fund-raising targets

14 Flag bearer

15 Crack from the wind, perhaps

16 Cycling route for Broom Hilda? 18 Instrument featured in “Waltz of the Flowers” 19 Old DJ’s array

20 Taper off

21 One-up

22 Bread grain 23 Romantic locales for Miss Piggy?

25 Maker of a fine cheddar?

27 Result of a missed deadline, maybe

28 Eye affliction

29 Sheer linen fabric 31 Pre-1991 map letters 32 Place to harvest your deepest secrets?

36 Part of a Braille character

39 Like many dad jokes 40 Italian wine hub 44 Logically flawed 46 Hit, as the gas 48 Equipment for identifyin­g genuine island wreaths?

51 Dungeons & Dragons genre, briefly 52 Hungarian mathematic­ian Paul

53 Frodo’s home, with

“the”

54 Wine statistic 55 Baskervill­e Hall setting

56 Sign of deceit, and a phonetic hint to four puzzle answers

58 Beast of burden 59 Massage deeply 60 Workout output 61 Beast of burden 62 Needs to settle 63 Drops the ball

Down

1 Snooze loudly

2 Some website images 3 Linger longer than, as a welcome

4 Film buff’s choice

5 Jack in a rhyme 6 Kinkajou cousin

7 Sci-fi subject

8 First name of two Spice Girls 9 Hypothetic­als 10 Monster Angus Thickburge­r seller

11 Adversary

13 Protect from light 15 Certain jumper’s need 17 Way up the slope 21 KitchenAid competitor

24 Apple variety 26 Rocker Nugent 29 Convention center attraction

30 Olive __

33 British __

34 Fighting

35 Astronaut Jemison 36 Word from the Greek for “two assumption­s” 37 Oppressive

38 Tube tops?

41 Device that delivers a coat

42 Fifth, often, for a manual transmissi­on 43 Downs

45 Cherish

46 Type

47 Part of a full house, maybe

49 Easter Island’s country

50 Little disputes

56 Box office sign

 ??  ?? 57 Female in a field
57 Female in a field

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