NEA daily crossword puzzle

ACROSS

1 Cream puff, slangily

5 Tax shelter

8 Scrub

12 Auction site

13 Cable honcho -- Turner

14 Maui dance

15 Gossip, slangily

16 USN officer

17 All right

18 Connive

20 Optimistic

21 W. Hemisphere group

22 DDE’s party

23 Frighten

26 Crusty roll

29 Refs’ cousins

30 Staircase part

31 Dale’s favorite cowboy

33 Slangy physique

34 Go limp

35 Newborn

36 Take turns

38 Uses solder

39 Exist

40 Machine tooth

41 Home furnishings

43 Put in the fridge

46 Tune

47 Uproar

48 Wax-coated cheese

50 Fence opening

51 Bind with string

52 Nerve network

53 Walked on

54 Goal

55 Jagged tear

DOWN

1 Meld

2 Stork cousin

3 Artist Chagall

4 Boas

5 Particulars

6 Magritte’s name

7 Pitches

8 Rodeo yells

9 Razor-billed birds

10 Dispatch, as a dragon

11 Cattle fodder

19 Gourmandize

20 Stir up

22 Trot or canter

23 Add to a soundtrack

24 Love, in Madrid

25 Salon creation

26 Curly-leafed veggie

27 Periods

28 Santa’s garb

30 Ceremony

32 Proposal response

34 All-out fights

35 “Taps” players

37 Put out a runner

38 Egg -- yung

40 Intimidated

41 Thunder

42 A law -- itself

43 Invent, as a phrase

44 Churchill successor

45 Computer input

46 PFC boss

47 Road map info

49 Jo’s sister