CROSSWORD II
ACROSS
1 Unadorned 5 Flex
9 Flourish 14 First fratricide victim
15 It’s spiky yet soothing 16 Author Ingalls
Wilder
17 One running
in fashionable
circles 19 Complete and
total 20 Interrogate Zuckerberg? 22 “I can’t ___ that!” (response to a gross image)
23 Ray guns’ rays,
maybe 27 Newsroom VIPs 28 Leprechaun who’s a cereal mascot 30 Corp. head honcho 31 Daring poker statement 34 Tear transmitters 36 With 37-Across, hugely inflate price estimates? 37 See 36-Across 39 Mothers’ sisters 40 Mollusk often served in a white wine sauce 41 Letters before a pseudonym 42 Tissue layers 44 Clean Air Act org. 47 Cherished 50 Deck with wands 52 Send along Kirk x Spock fanfic, say? 55 Measured poker statement 58 Infiltrate, as a spy 59 Righteous 60 They may be long on the underdog 61 Father of 14-Across 62 63-Across and others 63 Ogden who wrote, “The cow is of the bovine ilk; One end is moo, the other, milk”
64 Shoe part, or a fish
DOWN
1 From a region on Spain’s border 2 Teem 3 Music played as the clergy exit 4 Renee ___ Goldsberry 5 Indonesian island
6 “Call Me by Your Name” protagonist 7 Like a bully 8 Decree to pass muster 9 Book jacket summary
10 “I love you a ___” (Hanukkah card pun) 11 Openly queer 12 Mine material 13 Damage
18 Put away some groceries? 21 ___ which way 24 Gradually speeding up, in music 25 New York baseball players 26 ...---... 28 Short, informally 29 Application 32 Place to get stuck 33 Six-pack
components 34 MS-___
35 Tribe for which a Western state is named
36 Ellington of jazz 37 “___ pasa?” 38 Naval letters 39 Vocalization at the dentist’s 40 ___ rights (suspect’s protections) 42 Part of rpm 43 Food writer Nigella
45 Part of USPS 46 Not out and about
48 C sharp, by another name 49 Barbie and G.I. Joe 50 Reproachful sound 51 Secret identity 53 Scarlet and vermilion 54 Crush, as hopes 55 Little devil 56 Dove call 57 Verb that sounds like its second letter