THE DAILY COMMUTER
DOWN
1 Apt rhyme of
slay and runway 2 Return
address? 3 Teacher defended by Darrow in 1925 4 Modem
terminals? 5 Menageries
6 “u slay me” 7 Initially
8 Roots rock band that started as the Blue Velvets, for short
9 Hebrew leader? 10 Pride banner with yellow, white, purple, and black stripes
11 Veto
12 The __ Charitable Trusts: NGO with a think tank
13 Brief closing 18 Hot spell?
22 Bob that may be a solution for post-pregnancy thinning
25 Prairie wanderer 27 Swap 28 Hubbubs 29 Fixed 31 Make-up
artists?
34 Wipe
35 “Obvi!”
36 Paul of “The
Fabelmans” 37 Inner workings? 39 Scrambled 40 Generational
portmanteau 44 Roster 45 Ethically
unconcerned 46 Prepares for
impact, say 48 Thus
52 Loving 53 School gps. 55 Openly queer 56 Component of
some vaccines 57 Conference
acronym 59 Mag staff
ACROSS
1 Assistance
5 Unit of postage 10 1982 cyberspace
movie
14 All finished 15 “The Sound of
Music” role 16 Filter type: Abbr. 17 Mexican money 18 “Jeopardy!” host, 1984-2020: 2 wds.
20 Acts as a muse 22 Academia goal 23 Ingest 24 __-tac-toe 25 Down in the
dumps 26 Enamor
29 Make excited 32 Ram features 33 Fast-running bird 34 Ran fast, say 38 “Othello” villain 39 More, in Spanish 40 Tempo 41 Self-satisfied 43 FBI worker: Abbr. 44 Tart citrus fruit
45 Pizza’s birthplace, it’s
said
47 Twist of fate 48 NBC parent,
once
51 Wish one hadn’t
52 Port letters
53 Out of bed 55 Easy to bring
along
60 Taking a plunge 62 Like many dorms 63 Curly green
veggie 64 Because 65 Charles III, e.g. 66 Flower support
67 Can’t stand
68 __ gin fizz
DOWN
1 Southwestern
people
2 Tied up
3 __ is more 4 “Peggy” or “Panama,” e,g.: 2 wds.
5 Intelligent 6 Anecdote
7 Greek war god 8 Combine
9 York
Peppermint __ 10 Whereupon 11 Letter-and-picture
puzzle
12 Sung drama 13 Unclothed 19 Happen again 21 Alpo rival
24 Has faith in
26 “__ ’n Dale:
Rescue Rangers” 27 Frost, poetically
28 Jason’s ship
29 Sow or hen 30 JPEG, for one 31 Softcover books 35 Disguising garb,
for short
36 MBA subj.
37 Say no to 42 Had the
gumption 44 Lean to one side 46 Inflict a penalty
on
48 Hierarchy parts 49 Zagreb native 50 Supermarket
path 52 Powerful
impulses
54 Look to be
55 Pub pour
56 __ in a lifetime 57 Cook in hot water 58 Comic Jay 59 Barely beat
61 By way of