NEA daily crossword puzzle

ACROSS

1 Cutting instrument 6 Barbarian

12 Loss of power 14 Department

15 Person from Delhi 16 Evolve

17 Hwys.

18 Teacher’s favorite 19 Crack pilot

21 -- Enterprise

23 Kind of cube

26 Grassy field

27 Damp

28 Bull’s noise

30 Orbit segment

31 Fruit drink

32 Where Greek met Greek 33 Ocean or river 35 Prophet Samuel’s mentor

37 Flee

38 Daring feat 39 Aberdeen kid

40 Dog days in Dijon 41 That, in Acapulco 42 Superlative suffix 43 Hurler’s stat

44 Travel guide 46 Primitive cabin 48 Late summer flowers 51 Resounded

55 Twin of Artemis 56 Big hammer 57 Central Park sight 58 Burning desire

DOWN

1 Garden pond fish

2 Cell habitant

3 “-- take forever!” 4 Laissez- -

5 Victorian oath 6 Musical intros

7 The chills

8 Mesh

9 Chromosome material 10 Pretend

11 Strong alkali 13 Happened next 19 Make bubbly

20 Spiny plant 22 Structural metals 24 Champagne bucket 25 Typesetting mistakes 26 Statutes

27 Bump on a frog 28 Blurted out

29 Not wild

34 Glossy paints 36 Grinding machines 42 -- Downs (racetrack) 43 Upper regions of space 45 The younger Guthrie 47 West Coast sch.

48 Ooh companion 49 Health resort 50 Freight unit 52 Not common

53 Sense of self 54 German article