The Daily Commuter puzzle

ACROSS 1 Afternoon socials 5 Scatter

10 Con game 14 Engrossed 15 Prefix for action

or plant

16 Book leaf

17 Catch a glimpse of 18 Called to mind 20 Place for an iris 21 Unfair slant 22 Bamboo shoots 23 Religious

pamphlet

25 One of the Seven

Dwarfs

26 Man of the cloth 28 Systematic

procedure 31 Leaks out 32 Cobbler fruit 34 Compete 36 End-of-the-workweek cry 37 Candid

38 Declare false 39 Source of light 40 Couples 41 Threshold

42 Selfcenteredness 44 Passes on, as a

message

45 Nixon or

Robertson 46 __-depressive;

bipolar 47 Fluttering tree 50 Cool one’s heels 51 Spanish uncle 54 Safari sighting 57 San José,

Costa __ 58 Nursery rhyme

king

59 In the loop 60 Bowled __;

gobsmacked 61 __ on to; didn’t

give away 62 Lukewarm 63 Marries

DOWN

1 Shade provider 2 Simple 3 Yummy-looking 4 Animal enclosure 5 Like a no-nonsense teacher 6 “Trick or __!” 7 Los Angeles

team

8 90 degrees from

NNW 9 Playwright Maugham’s initials

10 Oration

11 Part of TLC 12 Getting on in

years

13 Pills & such 19 Thin soup 21 Bony fish 24 Coral ridge 25 Package of

cards

26 Cook’s supply 27 Scoundrel 28 No-__-land; area between armies

29 Hyper

30 Dark, dull & dirty 32 Straitlaced 33 Word attached to

drums or drops 35 Needle holes 37 Hasty 38 Supermarket

section

40 Spinet, for one 41 Express pent-up

feelings 43 Unlocked 44 Brought up, as

kids

46 New Zealand

native

47 Part of the foot 48 Clog or loafer

49 Nuprin or

aspirin 50 Envelop

52 __ tea 53 Doesn’t have both __ in the water 55 Tabby 56 Lamb bearer 57 Argument