The Columbus Dispatch

CROSSWORD NO. 2 WET PAINT

- By Paul Coulter

ACROSS

1 Common fast-food

side order

6 So far

11 Backstabbe­r

14 Middle meal

15 Montoya in “The

Princess Bride”

16 “A likely story!”

17 Inedible fruit that surprising­ly isn’t a citrus

19 Anger

20 Cleopatra’s snake

21 Bit of aerobic

exercise

22 Up-and-coming

whiz

24 “Let’s see you do

better!”

26 Split, like a hoof

27 “For ___ a Jolly

Good Fellow”

28 Former legal drama that starred Susan Dey

29 Howled

32 Metaphor for a

potential crisis

35 Extol

36 Line with triangles,

on a weather map

38 Before long, to a

poet

39 Become

establishe­d

41 The way things are

going

42 Track shapes

43 Big name in

outdoor gear

44 New York NBA

team 45 Candor

49 Pooh’s pink pal

50 Monotonous

routines

51 One may be

short-sleeved

52 John, in England

53 Contents of some palettes ... or what 17-Across, 11-Down and 31-Down could be, given that their starts are rivers?

56 Bird that hoots

57 High up

58 Not throw away,

say

59 Person celebrated

in June

60 Abominable

snowmen

61 Constructi­on spots © 2021 ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATIO­N.

DOWN

1 Ice-cream treat

served with a straw

2 Rene of “Ransom”

3 Like “Candy Crush”

purchases

4 Heart record, for

short

5 Relative of a man

cave

6 Buenos ___

7 Lose your temper

8 Yang’s counterpar­t

9 Baba ghanoush

ingredient

10 Initial bit of

progress

11 Drink such as

liebfraumi­lch

12 Composer Copland

13 Not us

18 Elevator pioneer

23 Saint of Hollywood

25 Lucifer

26 Extended family

29 Its first letter doesn’t stand for “bread”

30 Battery size

31 Potato variety developed in Canada

32 You may bid or

build on it

33 Oui’s opposite

34 No ___ in sight

36 “Pecos Bill” or “Paul

Bunyan”

37 “Friends” character

with a PH.D.

40 Saratoga or

Daytona

41 Stretching

muscles

43 Campus military

org.

44 Southern Plains

native

45 What the truth

does, per Lizzo

46 “I’m a little teapot/

Short and ___”

47 Brusque

48 Affirmativ­es

49 Trudge

50 Mortgage change,

for short

54 Pampered one?

55 Fragrant

neckwear

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