The BalTimore Sun CroSSword

ACROSS

1 Some chocolate

purchases 12 Inflation fig. 15 Purveyor of fraudulent credentials

16 Bit of positivity? 17 Hair, in many

cases

18 Latin word in many academic mottos 19 Climber’s rest

stop

20 Poetic indicator

of relative time 21 Juice extractor 23 Pasture

palindrome 24 Wouldn’t

share 26 Imperious

dismissal 28 Surfboard

damage 31 Shocked bigtime

34 Official who

sings in Hebrew 36 Leverage

provider 37 Where to find “Octopus’s Garden” on “Abbey Road” 38 Utah Jazz center

Whiteside

39 Ran into

trouble 40 Shakespearean

last gasp 41 Neologists 43 Zoom

frustrations 45 __ rule

48 Love of

collectibles 50 “__ Kapital” 51 Succumbed to

stage fright 53 Brown or Rice

ending 54 ’90s-’00s HBO series with lots of therapy sessions 57 Comprehend 58 Impresario’s

contact 59 Hibachi

waste

60 Election

focuses

DOWN

1 Disorient 2 Power cord? 3 Club relative 4 First name in

film designers 5 Wander

6 “Eww! Say no

more!” 7 Redesigned 8 Popped up 9 Common

starting hr.

10 “I Am Jazz”

cable channel 11 Took a day to consider, with “on”

12 Faulted to

excess

13 __-chef

14 “Need You

Tonight” band 22 Dermatological

symptom

24 Yoga asset 25 Reels off 26 Premise in many John Grisham novels

27 Idris of “The

Jungle Book” 29 Actress Gaye of

“Ali”

30 Novelist Iles 31 Reason to call a

chiropractor 32 Nit, to a Brit 33 Like a situation in which emotional persuasion trumps factual accuracy 35 Purim month 37 Voice used for “Humpty Dumpty,” say 39 Crime novelist

Carl

12/11/21 42 Yale sobriquet 44 Crosses at obedience school? 45 “Rouen Cathedral” painter 46 Thinning layer 47 Tops

48 Chevy named for

a star

49 When 40-Across

was spoken 51 Alpha Phi Alpha,

e.g.

52 Sitar sequence 55 Hem partner 56 NBA stat