The BalTimore Sun CroSSword

ACROSS

1 __ test 5 Oft-poached

pear

9 With 9-Down, Thanksgiving dessert

14 Arm bone

15 Bar mixer 16 Fuming

17 Some baby shower honorees 18 *Big moth 20 “Da 5 Bloods” actor Whitlock Jr.

22 Cookbook writer

Garten 23 Choose 24 *Theater

debt

29 “Makes sense” 30 False front? 33 ETA provider 36 Parker products 38 Made in Taiwan,

say

40 “It was even funnier at the time,” or a hint to making the starred clues match their answers 44 Cantaloupe, e.g. 45 Close in anger 46 August hrs. 47 Beach city where Barbie’s Dreamhouse is available for short-term rentals 50 Historic times 52 *Frozen state 57 Toward the

stern 60 Spacewalk

initials

61 Title with a

tilde

62 *Title bot 67 Falafel bread 68 Fountain drinks 69 Char on a grill 70 “For real?” 71 Setting for much of “The Mummy” franchise

72 Like a chimney sweep’s clothes, maybe

73 Wall St. index

DOWN

1 Component of self-guided museum tours 2 Necklace

fastener 3 Nonstudio

flick

4 Fiji competitor 5 Secretly include, in a way

6 “I’m

impressed!” 7 Done in, as a

dragon 8 Opposite of

dogbane?

9 See 9-Across 10 Add salt instead of sugar, say 11 Baja resort,

familiarly 12 Perched on 13 “What else ya

got?”

19 Price points? 21 __ Heritage Month: September 15 to October 15 25 Require 26 Gallant guy 27 Products of thermal imaging 28 Derriere 31 Faded out 32 Sculler’s tools 33 Muscle

building? 34 Ada Limón work 35 Toni Morrison’s

second novel 37 “Help us!”

letters

39 __ zero

emissions 41 Colorful Hindu

festival 42 “Sacre __!” 43 Countess

counterpart 48 Emmy-winning Ali Wong series

49 Certain travel

doc.

51 Attempt to

mediate

4/12/24 53 Batting practice

sites 54 Harmony 55 Flatbreads made with atta flour

56 Wipe clean 57 Recess on a Catholic school campus? 58 Mesopotamian symbol of fertility

59 Neat

63 Cook in the

microwave 64 Rough fig. 65 “Shows you!” 66 Attempt