The BalTimore Sun CroSSword

ACROSS

1 Mamba kin 6 Peak

10 Some Dada

pieces

14 Cover name

15 __ and proper 16 Exactly 17 “Fingers

crossed!” 19 Theater award 20 Art Institute of Chicago area, with “the” 21 “Come with me,

Spot!”

22 Slightly ahead 23 One with pointy ears and pointy shoes

24 Actress Thurman 25 Unintentionally

reply all, say 27 Longtime

NASCAR sponsor 28 Denial

30 Miserly desire 32 Egg layer 33 Catchy pitch 34 Flour used for naan and paratha

37 “We card” cards,

for short 38 Novelists Patchett and Petry

39 Grand

42 Open __ night 44 Furry toy spiders that move when screamed at 45 Kansas home of McConnell Air Force Base 49 Capitol Hill fig. 50 Actor who played Clubber Lang in “Rocky III”

51 Annoy

52 Boar’s mate 53 Elba of “Cats” 55 Tirade

57 Floor model 58 Murmurs

lovingly 59 Midday hiatus illustrated three times in this puzzle

61 Asia’s vanishing

__ Sea 62 Juvenile

outburst?

63 Join

64 Mother of Castor

and Pollux 65 __ Spunkmeyer 66 Did well

together

DOWN

1 Square dance

figure

2 Fútbol cheer 3 Removed with

one’s chompers 4 Abrasive tool 5 Bat wood

6 Legal

challenge 7 Manitoba

people

8 Deceives

9 Genre with introspective lyrics

10 On

11 Endorse without

reading, say 12 Makeshift storage container for brushes 13 Becomes more

inclined? 18 “That sounds

rough!”

22 River through

Orsk

24 Employ 26 Trailer park parkers, for short

29 Ryder rival 31 “Stiff” and “Bonk” writer Mary 33 Contribute 34 Out of the

ordinary 35 “Sister Carrie” novelist

Dreiser 36 E-ZPass stretch,

say

37 Educate 40 Virtual citizens in a video game 11/17/22 41 __ Lingus 42 Levity

43 “Eww!” 45 Flinches

46 Happy cry from someone who finally deciphers a Magic Eye picture

47 Salsa ingredient 48 No longer asleep 54 Cuba, por

ejemplo

56 Years, in Rome 57 Spy-fi villain in a

Nehru jacket 59 Southeast Asian

language 60 Software glitch