Here is the crossword puzzle answer key featured in your Metro newspaper.
ACROSS1 Gloomy 6 Mud dauber, e.g. 10 Piltdown man, for one 14 Second showing 15 Perched 16 Hideous monster 17 Rock tumbler stone 18 Apparel 19 Piercing 20 Consumed by insects? (hyph.) 22 Look after (2 wds.) 23 Mercury rival 24 California peak 25 Lord Tennyson 28 Subatomic particle 30 Firm 31 Enthused (hyph.) 35 Limerick writer 36 -- diem (seize the day) 37 Lone Ranger's name 39 Pond lovers with delicate wings 41 Vitamin lead-in 42 Wrinkle 43 Coercion 44 Small apartment 48 Ant horde 49 Loose garment 50 Shocking losses (2 wds.) 55 Director -- Preminger 56 Timber wolf 57 Repair-bill item 58 Burglar's "key" 59 Facile 60 January, in Jalisco 61 -- Stanley Gardner 62 Threat ender 63 Point -- National Seashore
DOWN1 Author -- Stoker 2 Engineering toy 3 Latin I verb 4 Expert 5 Paid homage 6 Light-bulb units 7 Shampoo additive 8 Token 9 Qt. parts 10 Phonies it up 11 Curved moldings 12 Glacial ridge 13 Inert gas 21 Say further 22 Rational 24 Canter 25 Deadly snake 26 Tower over 27 Kitty's bane 28 Thick soup 29 Devilkins 31 Anguish 32 Covent Garden route (2 wds.) 33 Congolese river 34 The worst, slangily 36 Ad award 38 Bad-mouth 40 Paris cop 41 Soft-spoken one 43 Good for cacti 44 Elegant wrap 45 Mentor 46 No later than 47 Vacuum tube 48 Hacienda brick 50 Weevil nosh 51 Kyoto sashes 52 Knuckle under 53 Sported 54 B'way signs 56 Size above med.
