KIDS’ BOOKS

ACROSS

1. *The Big Bad Wolf: “I’ll ____ your house down”

5. Edgar Rice Burroughs’ Kerchak or Kala

8. Cosine’s buddy

12. Target of grand theft

13. Influencer’s journal

14. Food-grinding tooth

15. Bear’s hang-out

16. Like a maxi skirt

17. Get up

18. *Robert McCloskey’s “Make Way for ____”

20. March Madness org.

21. Expenditure, in the olden days

22. *”Four and twenty blackbirds baked in a ____”

23. Turn pale

26. Lachrymatory agent (2 words)

30. Swimmer’s distance

31. Rinse and ____

34. Consequently

35. Join forces

37. Bruin legend Bobby

38. Jury duty event

39. Per person

40. Hockey player, e.g.

42. Approximated landing time

43. What naughty children do

45. Fortification made of wagons

47. Preceding month

48. Unnecessary embellishment

50. Customs document

52. *He had a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day

56. Popular pie nut

57. Not final

58. Just a little

59. Choice dish

60. ____-do-well

61. Sudden and brilliant success

62. Doofus

63. Is, in France

64. Fail to mention

DOWN

1. Like a certain eagle

2. Oahu shindig

3. Related to ear

4. Exert persuasive powers (2 words)

5. Jennifer Aniston’s movie “____ Came Polly”

6. *Canine father in Dodie Smith’s “The Hundred and One Dalmatians”

7. *Dr. Seuss: “I do not like green ____ and ham”

8. *Philosopher in American edition of “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone”

9. Hipbone

10. U.S. space agency, acr.

11. *”I heard him exclaim, ____ he drove out of sight, Merry Christmas…”

13. Not serious

14. Bipolar disorder phase

19. Filthy cabbage

22. Favorite student

23. Protected steel from rust with coating

24. Hawaiian veranda

25. Long stories

26. *The Queen of Hearts baked more than one of these

27. “In the Hall of the Mountain King” composer Edvard ____

28. Popular gemstone

29. Type of renewable energy

32. *Janette Sebring Lowrey’s “The ____ Little Puppy”

33. Pitcher’s stat

36. *”One ____ and One Nights”

38. ____-____-la refrain

40. Group of exercise reps

41. a.k.a. philosopher’s stone

44. Flavorless

46. Aluminum+nickel+cobalt, magnetic alloy

48. What time does

49. Button on electrical outlet

50. Bride’s cover

51. International Civil Aviation Organization

52. *Green Gables resident ____ Shirley

53. Gloom’s partner

54. Evening purse

55. Wholly engrossed