CROSSWORDS
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] 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