Crossword

ACROSS

1 Deliver a tirade 5 SDI target 9 Sound of

hesitation

12 “No way!” 13 Chicken cordon

___

14 Actress Adams 15 “His Dark ___” (Fantasy TV series based on novels)

17 Texted laugh 18 Gruyere

20 Taj ___ 22 Author/ illustrator Silverstein

23 Kind of daisy 24 Acclaimed sci-fi

drama “Mr. ___” 28 “___ My Children” (defunct soap opera) 29 Nigerian native 30 Twilight Saga

heroine 33 Computer flub 35 “Frozen”

(2013) snowman 38 Things to crack 39 Like cows, deer

and pandas 43 What a supermarket scanner scans, briefly

44 “The Social Network” (2010) star Jesse 47 Engine speed,

for short 48 Astronaut’s

insignia

49 “Star Wars”

princess 50 Recipe amt. 51 Rice Krispies

sound 52 Whirling water

DOWN

1 Spirit made from

sugar cane 2 “Bingo!”

3 In just a few

words 4 Much-memed “The Mandalorian” phrase “This is ___”

5 Wading bird 6 Social status 7 Burp

8 Dog team driver 9 “Veep” and “Arrested Development” star Tony

10 “The Expanse”

character

11 Noah of “ER” 16 Rub the wrong

way

19 “Xanadu” grp. 20 Biblical

kingdom 21 Wheel shaft 25 Food for 36

Down 26 Symphony

member

27 Rocky peaks 31 High ball 32 Fantastical series “Ancient ___”

33 Nobel Prize

subj.

34 Russian

currency (var.) 36 Like “Sesame

Street’s” Big Bird 37 Predator endemic to Madagascar 39 Hollywood star

William

40 Former “House,

M.D.” star Omar 41 Iconic Canadian law enforcement grp.

42 Cut the crop 45 Free (of)

46 Like Will in

“Will & Grace”