FAMILY TIME CROSSWORD

The (K) Clues Are for Kids

ACROSS

1. (K) Dispatched

5. Drain, as one’s energy

8. (K) Operate wings, like a bird

12. Party times before big events

13. (K) Sci-fi alien transporter

14. (K) Fun thing to kick

15. Arizona city

16. ___ de plume (pen name)

17. (K) “What’s gotten ___ you?!”

18. Very eager to know more

21. (K) Great place to climb to

22. Something an office copier might do

24. (K) Tried a little sauteed spinach

28. (K) Shows with lots and lots of singing

31. (K) Part of the human eye 32. (K) Negative prefix

33. (K) Chin hiders

36. (K) Low voices

38. Husband- and wife-related

40. Musical twosome

42. (K) Fly catcher

47. “Black Beauty” author Sewell

49. (K) Dir. to the right of north

50. What some call Ireland

51. (K) The sun is one

52. (K) Car-cleaning object

53. (K) Math branch

54. (K) Result of using a spade

55. (K) Colossal or gigantic

56. (K) Places for some hillside creatures

DOWN

1. (K) Most have 18 wheels

2. (K) What tying the score makes you

3. (K) Place for a new bird

4. Russian monarch prior to 1917

5. Ra, to ancient Egyptians (2 words)

6. Run ___ of the law (get in legal trouble)

7. Large citrus fruit

8. (K) U.S. crime-fighting agcy.

9. (K) Lamps of old

10. Palo ___, Calif.

11. (K) Sit down with a lazy jump

19. (K) Drink cooler

20. High-five alternative

23. Darjeeling and others

24. (K) Where dirt goes down the drain

25. (K) GPS abbreviation in the city

26. (K) Like extra workers hired at Christmas time

27. (K) Infield cover

29. (K) Had roasted chestnuts

30. Family member, informally

34. (K) Two, in Mexico

35. (K) Terrific

36. Scoundrel in a dozen? (2 words)

37. Amber beverage

39. Moses’ mountain

40. (K) 40-yard event

41. (K) “Do ___ others as ...”

43. Having finished one’s career, briefly

44. (K) Type of coat hanger

45. What some call Ireland

46. (K) Does a doggy trick

48. (K) “How ___ you doing that?”