The Columbus Dispatch

CROSSWORD NO. 2 NATURAL GROWTH

- By Paul Coulter

ACROSS

1 Girl who may say

“nae”

5 Military wear,

informally

9 Rhyming nickname for a ‘90s-’00s Britcom

14 Boat in “Jaws”

15 Acted just like

16 Navajo or Pueblo

17 Tournament

favorite

19 Cliffside nest

20 Souvenir shop

garment

21 Comes down hard?

22 Opposite NNE

23 Abbr. at the end of

a business name

24 Geological period

25 Problem-solve

29 Simple chord

32 Word said with a

sigh

33 Apply

34 Houston university

35 Try to prevent

37 “A Hard Road to Glory” author Arthur

38 Tribute from a poet

39 West Coast gas

brand

40 Cook, as clams

41 Diagram of options

45 Photograph­er

Adams

46 Suffix for “rocket”

47 “Te ___” (Spanish

for “I love you”) 50 Item an Olympian

hurls

52 Heart hit with the words “I cast my spell of love on you”

54 Buzzing with

activity

55 Yield the desired

result

56 Bogus

57 A single time

58 Annapolis initials

59 Fabric for a

professor’s jacket

60 Ram like a goat

61 Like the observatio­n “Crosswords are similar to life ...”

DOWN

1 Top housing

options?

2 Astrologic­al ram

3 Fastener that may

be loose

4 Back talk

5 Slots’ spot

6 Brief outline

7 Convene

8 Not divisible by

two

9 Bewildered

10 Bottom-first kind

of birth

11 Building with a bell

and a pole

12 Not much

13 Flower

pollinator­s © 2021 ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATIO­N.

18 Bronze medalist’s

place

21 Pointy pickle

piece

24 Fashion magazine

25 ___ Bo (exercise

system)

26 Conductor’s stick

27 Dept. of Labor arm

28 Abound

29 Put one’s foot

down?

30 Carnival attraction

31 Ornate-buttempora­ry winter structure

35 Towels off

36 Natural resource

management subj.

37 Absorbed, as a

cost

39 Gave confidence to

40 Bottom line on a

letter, say?

42 Cut with a scalpel

43 It led to a 1773

Boston “party”

44 Wish undone

47 Get a smile out of

48 Acadia National

Park’s state

49 Available from a

keg

50 Ridiculous,

to a Brit

51 Translatio­n of

Caesar’s “vidi”

52 Computer list

53 “Phooey!”

55 Go up and down

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