The Columbus Dispatch

CROSSWORD NO. 2 NOODLE AROUND

- By Bruce Venzke

ACROSS

1 Off drugs

6 Old movie channel

9 Popular tablet

13 Fibber Mcgee’s broadcast medium, once

14 Warsaw native

15 Equine 23-Across

16 Etching agents

17 Truckloads

18 “No contest” or

“not guilty”

19 Derby transactio­n

20 Hang on to first

place

23 One has a day in

May

24 “___ thy father ...”

25 Employer’s posting

30 Where Arches

National Park is

31 ___-to book

32 Homophone for

“sense”

36 Dallas NBA player,

briefly

37 Most cautious

40 Lubricatin­g

medium

41 Reduce drasticall­y

43 Bit of cote chatter

44 Where a pig might

be found?

45 “Don’t let it

happen!”

49 Take care of, as

duties

50 Common words of

commitment

DOWN

1 Grouch

2 Queen Anne’s ___

(white plant)

3 Tweak the wording

of

4 Subsidies and such

5 Person who never

arrives

6 Informed

7 Get into gear?

8 Netflix’s “The

Kominsky ___”

9 Burst inward

10 Not as ruddy

11 Surface calculatio­n

12 In need of a

recharge

14 Friend

21 Steak city of

Nebraska © 2021 ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATIO­N.

51 Big ego, or what encompasse­s 20-, 25- and 45-Across?

55 Serve that gets you

a quick point

58 Like a certain tale

or order

59 Similar

60 Full of holiday spirit

62 Tiptop

63 What gets into a

beachgoer’s shoes

64 Noticeable navel

65 Where a fork might

be encountere­d

66 Guess: Abbr.

67 Bunch of baby

birds

22 Pass, as a bill

23 Abbr. on a citation,

perhaps

25 Sounds of welltuned engines

26 Abbr. in a citation

27 What flows from

Mount Etna

28 Neither this ___

that

29 Once again?

33 Neophyte gamer

34 Polynesian image

35 Toy such as

Rosebud

37 Roulette necessity

38 Geological span

39 Bulgaria’s most

populous city

42 Freed, like peas

44 Debate position

46 Feeling relaxed

47 Grey Goose liquors

48 Occasional bit of

work

49 Alabama city in civil

rights history

51 Red carpet figure

52 Dr Pepper Museum’s Texas home

53 Clue

54 Word after “deep”

or “defensive”

55 Voice above tenor

56 Award talked about

on “Mad Men”

57 Gave the once-over

61 Hemingway’s “In

___ Time”

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