Chattanooga Times Free Press

ACROSS Crossword

- By Bettina Elias Siegel & Dan Elias

1 Stress-relieving gifts

12 Title in an order

15 Feature of the Bush and Johnson White Houses

16 Court call

17 Fox on TV

18 Prelude to a kiss?

19 Podcast feed letters

20 Zelle and Venmo

21 Editor’s tool

23 Any of 12 popes

24 Run

25 Some highlands musicians

28 Salt Lake Bees and Jacksonvil­le Jumbo Shrimp

29 “Who’s better

than me?!”

30 Drops in the air

31 Red choice

32 Tips for a writer

33 2020 Isabel Wilkerson bestseller subtitled “The Origins of Our Discontent­s”

34 Stud locale

35 Night sch. class

36 Gals, in dated slang

37 Winds

38 Member of a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame girl group

40 Polarizing figure?

41 Agreements

42 “Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are __!”: 1978 album

43 Opening night invitee

44 Untimely?

45 Evil computer who says, “I’m sorry, Dave. I’m afraid I can’t do that”

48 Bulls and bucks

49 Tailor’s device

52 “Dig in!”

53 Actor who played Tony Rodriguez on “NYPD Blue”

54 Some corporate IP

55 Display that may have rotating shelves

DOWN

1 Nicola Yoon’s “The Sun Is Also a __”

2 Cribbage pieces

3 x, y and z, in math

4 All-Clad

product

5 “Steps in Time” memoirist

6 Intellectu­al property?

7 Keurig pods

8 Concerns for some orthopedic surgeons, initially

9 HS proficienc­y test

10 Sap

11 Doja Cat hit with the lyric “Send your location, come through”

12 Ensures that change is in the air?

13 Scrooge, ultimately

14 In top form

22 One of the “Black-ish” parents

23 NOLA cagers

24 Brewery equipment

25 Pouch with a woodsy scent

26 Mudslide element

27 Attention getters

28 Target section

30 Shop keepers?

33 Focus of many a true crime podcast

34 Letterhead feature, often

36 Just

37 The Lascaux bulls, e.g.

39 Rubbish

40 Shower element

42 Actor JeanClaude Van __

44 Fragrant neckwear

45 Dance with a kahiko style

46 Trojan War god

47 __-majesté

50 Pops

51 Pollen holder

 ?? ??

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