Across

1.    Park attraction
8.    Children
12.    Remote control, shortened
13.    Short for osteoarthritis
14.    “___ got a secret”
15.    Take a chair
16.    What soluble and volume have in common
17.    Student
19.    Lose the need to suckle
21.    Tra follower x 2
22.    Any day now
23.    Bachelor of Arts, shortened
24.    Always cloth, in the past
27.    Certain set of construction toys
29.    Story finish: The ___
30.    Short for antiaircraft
31.    An adult on all fours, to a kid
33.    About (abbr)
34.    Little ___ Riding Hood
35.    Sesame, for one (abbr)
36.    Already there
37.    Between 12 and 20
38.    Silver symbol
39.    Devours strained vegetables, for example
41.    Bad guy in a 42 across
42.    _____ tale
43.    Workplace for 78 across (abbr)
44.    Fluffy and Fido, perhaps
47.    Short for trace or train
48.    Child’s travel need: car ____
51.    School building extension
52.    High preceder
54.    Symbol for sodium
55.    Stick figures, at the beginning
56.    Deciduous phenomena
61.    Scoot across the floor
63.    The Vegas Strip is full of it
64.    Toddle
66.    Federal Communications Commission, shortened
68.    Ending for First Aid
69.    Why is the ___ blue?
71.    Dad’s mom
75.    Atop
77.    Cool __  __ cucumber
78.    (See 43 across)
79.    Disembodied spirit
81.    Taste; discrimination
84.    Short for calorie or California
85.    “Do as __  ___, not as I do”
86.    Apiece
87.    Sleep aid for some: ____ Bear

Down

1.    Child below the age of five
2.    Letter of credit, shortened
3.    Crumb-snatcher
4.    Generation ___
5.    Baby or olive
6.    Short for ultraviolet
7.    Days old
8.    Before first grade
9.    That thing over there
10.    Skin cleanser
11.    Curtain-climbers
15.    Short for Saturday
17.    Purchase order, for short
18.    Needing to see the nurse
20.    Comfort
21.    Child’s game: Chutes and _______
25.    Pertaining to suffix
26.    Far ____
28.    First six to eight years of school
32.    Not very often
38.    Toward the stern
40.    Yes, to a Scot
44.    Low, vibrating sound made by a cat
45.    Between la and do
46.    Extremely
49.    Raggedy ___
50.    “You’re it!” game
52.    Game with metal objects and a rubber ball
53.    Right tackle, shortened
57.    Care for
58.    Word after Westward or Land
59.    Babyhood
60.    Moves to and fro
62.    Lincoln ____
65.    Short for atomic or atmosphere
67.    “Friday’s ____ is full of grace”
68.    Knockout, shortened
70.    Something to go fly
72.    “I smell a ___”
73.    “Sugar and spice and everything ____”
74.    Mister, shortened
76.    Plaything
77.    Circle part
80.    Half a laugh
82.    Atlantic time, for short
83.    Football score (abbr)

— A Custom Crossword by Gail Beckman
702-869-6416, customcrosswords.com

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