DAILY CROSSWORD

ACROSS

1 Use for support 7 PC key below ~ 10 Distort, as data 14 Calm and Restore

skin care brand 15 MLB stat

16 Valley west of

Sacramento 17 Garlic bread

option

19 Site with a Craft

Supplies section 20 “Spider-man” trilogy director Sam

21 “Come on down!”

announcer Johnny 22 Column of superheated ash and sulfur dioxide during an eruption 25 Superficial layer 26 Statistician Silver 27 Not here anymore 28 Word that can follow goal or detail

32 __-country music 33 One of a pair on a library shelf, as well as one of a pair in each set of circled letters 36 Joey pal of Piglet 37 Saddle

attachments 39 “Can’t you

take a __!?”

40 Flow slowly 41 Broad neckties 44 Nightshade relish 48 Geological

period

49 Cries miserably 50 Casual

get-together 51 Reading on a

decibel meter 56 Elm or ash 57 “Noah kept bees in the ark hive,” e.g.

58 Act as a

go-between 59 Utters 60 18-wheeler 61 Begins, as

a project

DOWN

1 Lab animal in a

maze

2 Night before 3 Superman foe

Luthor

4 Jack Black film with the tagline “Meet your ancestors” 5 Available for

purchase 6 Recognize

7 Rail rider

8 Core group?

9 Drill insert 10 Herman whose chart is topped with a giant “E” 11 Panko-breaded

chicken dish

12 __ salts: bathwater

additive

13 Hockey Hall of

Famer Gretzky 18 Actor Sharif 21 Chose

22 Starbucks size 23 Memo phrase 24 Abel’s brother 25 Battery unit 27 Need for some

hybrids

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28 Approves

29 Like stale

expressions 30 Ages

31 Ellipsis element 33 Liquid diet

component 34 Anise-flavored

aperitif

35 Cartel whose

“O” does not stand for “oil” 38 Kitchen invaders 39 “On the spot” spot 41 Part of a basic

Latin conjugation

42 Showroom pitches 43 Dog with a strong

herding instinct 44 Battery units? 45 Verdi composition 46 Amble

47 Yet to be paid 51 Steve Inskeep’s

network

52 French yes

53 Sue Grafton’s

“__ for Vengeance” 54 Superlative

suffix

55 Sign between

Cancer and Virgo