Don’t Be Puzzled

YOU CAN FIND SEVEN CLUES IN THESE PAGES

Across

1 Tick off

5 Na+ or Cl-, in chemistry 8 Land bordering the state of Uttar Pradesh

9 Target for a lanternfly 11 Many, many

13 Persnickety about details 14 Pioneer of “cowboy poetry” 16 Monogram letters: Abbr. 17 What Thoreau called “the universal refuge”

20 ___ versus machine

21 Setting for part of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

27 Cookie in cookies-andcream ice cream

28 From Croatia, say 29 Kind of service that can be traced back to the American Revolution 30 Anti-inflammatory brand 31 Stuff to trip on 32 Roman ruler whose depiction as a tyrant might be misconstrued

Down

1 Like a movie about making a movie, say

2 Product sold with earbuds 3 Feature of a vampire, per Bram Stoker

4 Ice sheet

5 Leaning one way in a newspaper? 6 Fancy-schmancy

7 Gets closer

8 Catch in the act 10 Yellowstone denizen

12 Hit TV sitcom with six main characters

15 MSNBC competitor 17 Informal agreement to an observation

18 “A little birdie says . . . ” 19 ___-di-dah

20 Hourly, more formally 21 Cutesy eating noise

22 Man’s name that’s an anagram of 13-Across 23 Green ingredient at a smoothie bar

24 Word said before putting down a walkie-talkie

25 DVR device

26 Typical card at the front of a new pack of cards