CROSSWORD NO. 2 WET PAINT
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