CROSSWORD PUZZLE

Across

1 Early finisher’s luxury

12 Word heard before a hike

15 Paper Mate introduced one in 1979 16 Hearth debris 17 Mock question of literacy

18 Poe’s __ Morgue 19 Casual greeting 20 Struggle with one’s sins? 21 Vicuña cousins 23 __ pit

24 Trap

25 Set out

28 Relay

29 Some memory triggers 30 Polite gesture from Alice 33 Malicious gossip 34 Actions to avoid 35 “The Hound of the Baskervilles” setting 36 Trial results 38 “Nobody Listens to __ Poundstone”: comedy podcast 39 Not on the ball 40 Spacely Space

Sprockets employee 41 Some pending cases

43 French bean? 44 Twist in pain 45 Play the sycophant to, with “over”

46 Ms. Pac-man ghost 49 Hedonist’s goal 50 Boss’s unsettling request

53 A, to Amélie 54 Barcelona star 55 “__ Miz” 56 Thurible go-with

Down

1 Modern fixer 2 Hymn singer’s wrath? 3 Loads

4 Part of i.e. 5 Musical family including James and Livingston 6 One behind a violist, maybe 7 Wintry nuisance 8 BOLO target 9 Clint’s Clyde, in a 1978 movie 10 Dreamers’ opposites 11 Circular, in a way 12 Like Pentatonix numbers

13 Expected

14 What we have here 22 Sailor’s shout 23 Strict disciplinarian

24 Play things 25 __-Frank: 2010 financial reform bill 26 Singer Brickell 27 Natural-born quillers?

28 Like Nash poetry 30 Brewery in Golden, Colorado

31 Short court plea 32 Pop’s ma 34 Focused

37 One of Kenya’s official languages 38 Honey or sugar 40 The Dresden Green and The Graff Pink 41 Not good at all 42 Cut back 43 Occupied

45 Okay

46 Just okay

47 Space bear 48 Change the narrative?

51 “Funky Cold Medina” rapper Tone __ 52 Pathological liar’s creation