NEA daily crossword puzzle

ACROSS

1 One-moon planet 6 Purplish flower 11 Unprincipled

13 Dress

14 Latest news 15 Helped a borrower 16 Drop -- -- line 17 Neighbor of CTRL 18 Not of sound mind 21 Easily damaged 23 Baby bear

26 Tavern order

27 Et, for Hans 28 Radius neighbor 29 Sudden urge 31 Freshly cut 32 Grabbed 33 Pharaoh’s tomb 36 Gambling stake 37 Peg on a golf course 38 Omega preceder 39 GI tags

40 Physicist Nikola -42 Fix the table 43 Small, in Dogpatch 44 Mac rivals

46 Rat on 49 Flammable gas 53 Dawn goddess 54 Puts out a fire 55 High-IQ group 56 Gaucho’s rope

DOWN

1 Water, in Montreal 2 Elec. unit

3 Fishing pole

4 Ore hauler

5 Mean

6 Coral reef

7 Census info 8 Non-rusting metal 9 Previous to

10 Lipstick color

12 Is taught

13 Range in Asia

18 Rum drink (2 wds.) 19 Amaretto flavor 20 Stations

22 Experts

23 Walks heavily 24 Ill-considered 25 Outlaw

28 Thurman of “Gattaca” 30 Banjo kin

34 Cried out

35 Atomic pile 40 Pageant wear

41 Miss Cinders of the

comics

43 Durocher and Carrillo 45 Feng -

46 “Jurassic Park” actor

-- Neill

47 What, in Seville 48 Samovar 50 Film speed ind. 51 Beauty salon item 52 That, to Juanita