THE DAILY COMMUTER
ACROSS
1 Abbreviation before a short version
5 Baja’s opposite
9 Jacobson of
“Broad City” 13 Uninteresting
person
14 Place for
discussion 16 Close to
17 Animal with
antlers
18 “__ Jacques” (French children’s song)
19 Food drive
donations
20 Off on a jaunt 23 Letters before an
amount due 24 Put out 25 Passage between England and France
29 Temper, as steel 33 Batter’s statistic 34 Bottle part
37 Classic video
game company 38 Simon Cowell’s
show, for short
39 Subject
41 Pink Lady liquor 42 Motif
45 Wide ribbon
accessory 46 Classroom
furniture piece
47 Messy
handwriting
49 Works that spoof 51 Competing sides 54 Texter’s “ha!”
55 1987 Tom Clancy
novel 59 Residence
60 Composer Ned
61 Crowds
64 Opportunist 65 Trap with a net
66 Think (over)
67 Roosters’ mates 68 Expectorate
69 Armed Forces
branch
DOWN 1 “Very funny” network 2 Building site 3 Lug with effort 4 Gets back 5 Wealthy
6 “Tank Girl”
actress Petty 7 Famed Roman
fountain 8 Mysterious glows 9 Older than old 10 Hit in the head
with a pitch 11 Explosion sound 12 W-9 form org. 15 Smart bunch 21 Chaney who played Frankenstein 22 Fish in a melt 25 Has a talk
26 Note in a
soprano’s range 27 Sheer
28 Some summer
babies
30 Anxious to please 31 Come up
32 Sausage units
35 Auditor, often:
Abbr.
36 Smooch 40 Timothée of
“Dune” 43 Makes a
difference 44 Pitcher by a
basin
46 Difficult problem 48 Animals’
hideouts
50 Male cat
52 Natural satellites 53 Handbag feature 55 Do some
modeling
56 “Heck yes!” 57 Spice Girl
Halliwell 58 Tart-tasting 59 “Well, I’ll be” 62 Social justice
abbreviation 63 Cagey
COPYRIGHT 2024 KING FEATURES