The BalTimore Sun CroSSword
ACROSS
1 Improve one’s
class?
11 Quick
16 Alcopop kin 17 Bring out 18 Single, but way
too flawed 19 Giant
20 Polish site 21 “Git!” 22 Nucleotide
triplet
23 Test for some
srs.
24 Cena of
“Peacemaker” 25 Mariah Carey
holiday hit 27 Resort town named for a native tree 29 Mixed __
30 Full of nervous
energy
33 “The Rotters’ Club” novelist Jonathan 34 Current events TikTok segment that V Spehar broadcasts from their office floor 39 Milne hopper 40 Famished 41 Holiness 44 Étouffée option 47 Arctic wear 48 1856 Stowe
novel 50 Umbrella spoke 52 Word in British
placenames 53 Natural
satellite 54 “Have it your
way” 55 Dong-hyuk who created “Squid Game”
56 “Can I have a bit
more time?” 58 Make one 59 Wheelie bike
feature 60 Mascot whose weight is listed as “Top Heavy” 61 Challenges for a translator, perhaps
DOWN
1 Chased a pitch 2 Kwanzaa
candelabra 3 West __
4 Toll
5 Do one’s part? 6 Walks out,
say
7 Laurel and Hardy
producer
8 First British
martyr
9 Scapula neighbor, for short
10 Long start,
once
11 Throw again 12 Brand whose website has a “3 Stripe Life” section
13 Table
14 “Maybe later” 15 Cozy spot 22 Queen’s gambit,
for one 24 Raspberry 25 Elizabeth who plays Scarlet Witch in the MCU 26 Improves,
maybe
28 Tense
beginning? 29 Eliot title hero 31 “__ how I roll” 32 Tax
34 Bear up?
35 “It went straight
to voice mail” 36 2014 memoir subtitled “Stories of Life, Death, and Brain Surgery” 37 Western Asia
native
38 Govt. cybersecurity monitor
42 [I’m so uncomfortable right now]
5/14/22 43 Retailer with a RedCard credit card
45 Bell hooks, for
one
46 Time slot with
talk shows 48 Part of
DKNY 49 “Succession”
sibling
51 Tops
53 Happy __ 54 Make one
55 “Let me
think ... “
56 “Full Frontal”
network
57 D.C. player