The BalTimore Sun CroSSword

ACROSS

1 Fit

5 Van Halen icon 10 Shortening in some cookie recipes

14 “Keep

talking ... ” 16 Fade

17 House blends,

e.g.

18 “Likely story” 19 Trap during January, maybe 20 “Euphoria” actor

Eric

21 Nej : Swedish ::

__ : Russian 22 Doesn’t work

hard 24 Sabermetrics

input

26 Hosp. scan 27 “The Boys of My Youth” writer Jo __ Beard

28 Jolly good

30 Lock

32 United in

a cause

35 Word with string

or sing 36 Focus of a diary in some sleep therapy sessions 39 Campus group 40 Yellowish pink 41 “And all that” 43 Forrest player 44 Bitey dog 47 Unlikely to pipe

up

48 Buckwheat

noodle 51 Chemical synthesized in the liver

53 Sail a zigzag

course

55 Résumé

concerns

57 Put a handle on 58 Gardner of

mystery

59 Chow from a

halal cart, e.g. 61 Caught up to, in

a way

62 Yoga class

respite

63 Covers up a plot? 64 Five Pillars faith 65 Taylor-Joy of “The Queen’s Gambit”

DOWN

1 Aegean

peninsula 2 Boston street where Cheers is located

3 Retailer with Outdoor Discovery programs 4 Golden Globe winner Tracee __ Ross

5 Fell

6 During 7 Reproductive

gland

8 __ rock

9 Starts over 10 Either “Twelfth

Night” sibling 11 Vacay for

parents-to-be 12 Disdainful

13 __ zoo

15 Experts who prefer openminded people?

23 “No need to

convince me” 25 Flashes of

insight 29 Ribs 31 “Chocolat”

actress

32 Aleve target 33 Cy Young

stat

34 Muscle worked by a reverse fly, for short 36 Rake 37 Repurposed creatively, as trash

38 Wildly 39 Elements of Petrarchan sonnets

42 Mind field, for

short 5/7/22 44 “That can’t possibly be true”

45 Weirded out 46 Herbal brew 49 Mikvehs, e.g. 50 National Scrabble Day month

52 City across from the Sunshine Skyway Bridge 54 Shoe brand with a Kate Spade New York collection 56 Actress Ward 60 Genre that

includes techno