NEA daily crossword puzzle

ACROSS

1 Baby’s bed

5 Pacino and Hirt

8 Pirate’s booty 12 Improve, as skills 13 Energy

14 Price increase 15 Something to scratch 16 Train station

18 On solid ground 20 Yang’s counterpart 21 Protected bay

23 Do a double-take 27 Pulls apart

30 Late

32 “Veep” network 33 Camel feature

35 Have being

36 “Big Blue”

37 Say hoarsely

39 Place of confinement 40 Closing in

43 -- -craftsy

45 More weird

46 Jazz singer -- Fitzgerald 48 Chatter endlessly 50 Houdini feat

54 City dweller

58 J in JFK

59 Food wrapping 60 Deckhand 61 Sicilian spewer 62 Woodwind 63 Female rel. 64 Break

DOWN

1 -- Pet

2 Crumbles

3 Proceed slowly 4 Gaze upon 5 Montezuma, for one 6 Misstate

7 Nimbly energetic 8 Black eye

9 Score big

10 FBI acronym 11 Solidify

17 Bog

19 -- Hashanah 22 Respect

24 Cope with change 25 Makes healthy 26 Ant-sized

27 Jungle charger 28 Flowed back 29 Wandering one 31 Corporate execs 34 Vase 38 Companions 41 Entertain 42 Shah’s land 44 More suggestive 47 Sly looks

49 Tiny pieces

51 -- meridiem

52 -- and needles 53 State, in Paris 54 Mysterious sighting in

the sky

55 Be a thief

56 College maj.

57 -- chi ch’uan