The BalTimore Sun CroSSword

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]

5/14/22 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