CROSSWORD FOR THURSDAY

ACROSS

1 — and kin

5 Online journal

9 Like the Sahara

13 “God's Little —”

14 Laissez- —

15 Nothing at all

16 “— & Clark”

17 Greek Muse

18 Before too long

19 Railroad employee

21 Capitulate

23 Revealed

24 Lascivious look

25 Parts of sandals

28 Monkeys and apes

32 Mountain ridge

33 Golden-touch king

34 “Now — seen everything”

35 Mellow

36 Unlock, in verse

37 Clumsy fellow

38 Honest —

39 Disconnect

41 Do a dance

42 Deferred (2 wds.)

44 Untie

45 In the company of

46 Sausage meat

47 Embraced

50 Authoritative pronouncement (2 wds.)

54 State in NW USA

55 Infer

57 Footwear brand

58 Occupation

59 Dressed to the —

60 Tear

61 River in Belgium

62 Salty drop

63 Means justifier

DOWN

1 Cabbage

2 Religious picture

3 Math subj. 4 Stammer 5 Exposed

6 Teller of tales 7 Table scrap 8 “— on My Mind” 9 Showy flower 10 Philosopher — Descartes

11 Golf club

12 “— Let Me Down”

14 Thinks

20 Slangy denial

22 Shade givers

24 Arrange

25 Comedian — Silverman

26 Native American group

27 Repulse

28 Pied —

29 Works the soil

30 Elicit

31 Auto type

33 Found new digs

37 Pots and pans

39 “— Like it Hot” 40 Apparent

41 Seaside city

43 Stiletto

44 Comes in last

46 Horse in a race

47 “— cow!”

48 “Exodus” author

49 Factor in heredity

50 Moon goddess

51 Microwave

52 Peel

53 Family guys

56 “Live and Let —”