The BalTimore Sun CroSSword

ACROSS

1 Flash __: impromptu gatherings 5 Chew like a

squirrel

9 Pretzel topping 13 Pentathlete’s

sword

14 Low opera voice 15 Joshua __

National Park 16 Swell

17 “Your work is

awesome!” 19 Overstep boundaries, perhaps

21 Civil rights

activist Baker 22 Beverage brewed

in a chawan 23 “The Bone Garden” novelist Gerritsen

25 City that hosts the State Fair of Texas

29 Fifth of a nickel 31 Round of

applause 33 Aggravate

34 “I’ll handle this” 36 __-Free: contact

lens solution 37 By way of 38 Fact-checker’s

catch

39 Leave stunned 40 Troubled to no

end

42 Thanos, to the

Avengers 43 Those, in

Spanish

45 “Say cheese!” 46 QB stats

47 Org. fighting for

LGBTQ rights 48 Garlic’s covering 49 Emphatic

agreement 51 Washed-out 53 Go out for a bit? 56 Light in signs 58 Text from a glum

chum

60 Gala celebrating the Academy Awards

64 Heavy burden 65 Like ground

chicken

66 Dubai dignitaries 67 Fully aware of 68 Palm fruit 69 Promotional

sample 70 Turns blue,

maybe

DOWN

1 Deserve

2 Offer one’s two

cents

3 Academy Award

category

4 One with a

crystal ball

5 Go and Go Fish 6 Org. that uses

cryptanalysis 7 Arthur in the International Tennis Hall of Fame

8 “__ that be

nice!”

9 Real bargain 10 Bark

11 Field for grazing 12 Value of a Q tile,

in Scrabble 14 Bathroom

fixture

18 “Great to find

that out” 20 Eclectic online

digest 24 Arrives, and an apt description of the sets of circled letters 26 Au pair

27 Sans serif

typeface

28 Go rollerblading 30 Music genre that spawned screamo 32 Donkey Kong,

e.g. 34 Southpaw 35 Wear down 39 Yahoo!

alternative 41 “Spare us the

details!”: Abbr.

11/2/22 44 Served, as ice

cream

48 Brings down the

house

50 Plain silly 52 Four-footed

Jetson

54 Like a 30-degree

angle 55 Guadalajara cash 57 January or June 59 Something to

chew on

60 Like antiques 61 Zooplankton’s

habitat

62 Litter box visitor 63 Hoop’s outer

edge