NEA daily crossword puzzle

1 Transport

5 Guitar enhancer, for short 8 “Beg pardon!”

12 Ferber or Millay

13 Me, in Marseilles 14 Warrior princess 15 Highway construction 17 Maine, from Utah 18 Pulled down

20 Regret deeply

21 Use a pepper mill 24 Comforter stuffing 26 Badminton stroke 27 Twisted and turned 31 Elevator maker

33 Turkish honorific 34 Limbs

38 Pedro’s coin

39 New York player

40 Essay byline

41 Soft leathers

44 Dutch carrier 45 Expression

48 Ticket info

50 Actor -- Perlman 51 Scholarly articles 55 Grounded birds 57 Mystify

61 Fictional sleuth -- Wolfe 62 Use sparingly 63 Rochester’s Jane 64 Delightful place 65 German article 66 Vassal

DOWN

1 That girl

2 Commotion

3 Ms. Merkel

4 Weighed down

5 Latin love

6 Poet’s new day

7 Long spear of yore 8 Hatchet (var.) 9 Eavesdropped

10 Follow

11 Livy’s parent

16 Gobs of gum 19 Aberdeen’s river 21 Mashed potato serving 22 From memory

23 Sacred bird of Egypt 25 Not employed 28 Cognomen

29 Like good brandy 30 Capshaw or Winslet 32 OK but not great (hyph.) 35 Taiga denizens

36 Fish organ 37 Like it was 42 Safe caller 43 Rani’s garment 45 Curie daughter 46 Round on top 47 Toughen up 49 Archipelago dots 52 Sleeping

53 Lap dog 54 Washstand item 56 Boy

58 Recolor

59 Mess up

60 TKO official