CROSSWORD NO. 2 SYNONYMOUS ANAGRAMS
ACROSS
1 Blood bank supply
7 Made before taxes
14 More in a lather?
15 Part-time player
16 Getting close
17 Getting close, and an anagram of 16-Across
18 Certain colas
19 One may sit on
your keyboard
20 Lower leg part
21 Beach
23 ___ Jackson Jr. (“Straight Outta Compton” star)
26 2-inch No. 2 pencil,
say
29 Musical sound
30 Musical sound, and an anagram of 29-Across
31 Angler’s hope
32 Feeling of wonder
34 Descriptor for a
dad
37 Facing a judge
41 Pub serving
42 Descriptor for a dad, and an anagram of 34-Across
44 Ashes holder
45 Barely at all
46 Wicked
48 Wicked, and an anagram of 46-Across
52 Called the shots
53 Australian “bear”
55 Its initial three letters spell an apt dessert
DOWN
1 Rain garment
2 “The Far Side”
cartoonist Gary
3 Doctors’ grp.
4 Because
5 ___ Millions
6 “Am not!” retort
7 “People Puzzler”
channel
8 Della of “Touched
by an Angel”
9 City in eastern
Nebraska
10 Voice on some
phones
11 On a cycle at the
gym, perhaps
12 Suffix with
“southwest”
13 Loyal pet
14 Blue-ribbon
position
22 Brought up, as a
child
24 Fuel treatment
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56 Awards sweep, for
short
58 Baby’s syllable
60 Liquor sometimes
mixed with tonic
61 Made irate
64 Made irate, and an anagram of 61-Across
66 Utensils for making
juice
67 Kerry Washington
or Amy Adams
68 Upper canvas on a
ship
69 Put up a fight
25 Principal, for a
school
27 Bryce Canyon’s
state
28 Boxing prize
30 “Cool!”
31 Country largely surrounded by Malaysia
33 Earn the blue
ribbon
35 Factual
36 Place for an Airpod
37 Australian precious
stone
38 Basketball Hall-offamer Archibald
39 Commerce
imbalance
40 What can cool into
basalt
43 Start of many
rappers’ names
47 Athletic shoe brand
49 Chills (out)
50 Most frigid
51 Gives for a while
53 South ___ (Seoul’s
country)
54 Comic Cheri
55 Harbor cities
57 Diamonds and
others
59 Way back when
61 Word after “fine” or
“folk”
62 “The Matrix” hero
63 Fiber internet
alternative, briefly
65 Mario’s middle
name?