NEA daily crossword puzzle

ACROSS

1 River, in Mexico

4 Var. topics

8 Throw slowly

11 Tuneful Paul -

13 Diva’s tune

14 Envir. monitor

15 Pompous walkers

17 Butterfly catcher

18 Hero sandwich

19 Hunt illegally

21 German conjunction

22 Fasten securely

23 Extinguish

26 Medals

29 Dr.’s visit

30 Rust component

31 Military addr.

33 Vexed

34 Has a turn

35 Unknown auth.

36 Golfer -- Ochoa

38 Keep yakking

39 Capp and Hirt

40 Cauldron

41 Where Tripoli is

44 Speechless

48 Kimono accessory

49 In a weak manner

52 Dogpatch’s -- Abner

53 Part of the eye

54 Cut grain

55 Query

56 Back of the neck

57 Had fries

DOWN

1 Carelessly hasty

2 Gung-ho

3 Slimy vegetable

4 Sorted socks

5 Wrath

6 Hitchcock’s title

7 Volga outlet

8 “Stormy Weather” singer

9 Fuel cartel

10 Cleansing soak

12 Leo’s month

16 Pitchfork part

20 Not ‘neath

22 Double dates

23 Stop up

24 Silica mineral

25 Salon creation 26 Length x width

27 Mr. Carvey

28 Notice

30 Physics topic

32 Single

34 Quivering dessert

35 -- C. Clarke of sci-fi

37 Bolger or Conniff

38 Kind of stick

40 Remote button

41 Ms. Falana

42 Nile wader

43 Cheat

45 Aboard ship

46 Thin board

47 Variety

50 Time period

51 Puppy bite