Herald-Tribune

THE DAILY COMMUTER

- | JACQUELINE E. MATHEWS

ACROSS

1 Luge vehicle 5 Exchange

9 False front 13 Payments to

Uncle Sam

15 Cry loudly 16 Wanderer 17 Senseless 18 Sticky-tongued

animal

20 Country streets:

abbr.

21 Constant noise 23 Lurch out of

control 24 Tennyson & Eliot 26 Fore and __ 27 Gathers fleece 29 Bing __

32 Fringe benefits,

familiarly

33 Air freshener 35 Falling-out 37 “Woe is me!” 38 Ship “spines” 39 Baking __; cookie recipe ingredient

40 “Are we

there __?” 41 Epitome of

slowness

42 Might

43 Fruit juice

45 In a cruel way 46 Sever

47 NFL team

48 Fire escape route 51 BPOE member 52 Man behind the

catcher 55 Heartbeat

regulator

58 Candice Bergen’s

dad

60 __ house; school

event 61 Australian export 62 Singer Ross 63 SAT, for one 64 Windy day toy 65 Author Zane

DOWN

1 Recipe verb 2 Terra firma 3 Enrage 4 Guest bedroom,

perhaps 5 “…seven __ a-swimming, six geese…” 6 1914-18 event 7 Shoot carefully 8 Posters

9 Jerseys 10 Opening

11 Suffix for avoid or

laugh

12 Earth orbiter 14 Passover meals 19 Actor Willem

22 “Don’t judge a

book by __ cover” 25 Official national

U.S. trees

27 ASPCA’s advice 28 Beautiful woman

of Troy

29 __ on; visit 30 Oatmeal

sweetener

31 Alpine goatherd’s

song 33 Equipment 34 Luau souvenir 36 Cautious 38 Hiker’s carryall 39 Zoom skyward 41 Weather forecast 42 Reached a high

point 44 Customer 45 Singer Tormé 47 Comedian Milton 48 Blemish 49 Sticky strip 50 King toppers

53 Lion’s locks 54 Priest’s advice 56 Backyard pond

fish

57 “Please Don’t __

the Daisies” 59 Use a spade

This is a theme puzzle with the subject stated at right. Find the listed words in the grid. They may run in any direction but always in a straight line. Some letters are used more than once. Ring each word as you find it and when you have completed the puzzle, there will be 22 letters left over. They spell out the alternativ­e theme of the puzzle.

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9/15/23 ?? Thursday’s Puzzle Solved
Created by Jacqueline E. Mathews 9/15/23 Thursday’s Puzzle Solved
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