The BalTimore Sun CroSSword

ACROSS

1 Fastener that’s an apt rhyme of “clasp”

5 Damp

10 Units of electrical resistance 14 Norway’s capital 15 Elevator button

symbol

16 TV alien played by Robin Williams

17 Bank claim 18 Sierra __, Africa 19 Marketplace for

unique gifts 20 *Spiderlike

arachnid 23 French toast

need

24 Mantra syllables 25 Slushy drink 28 Sitcom title role

for Brandy 30 Alien-hunting

org.

32 Large deer 33 *Does some rear-tire balancing on one’s bike 36 Mother Earth, in

Greek myth 39 “It’s the end of

an __”

40 Pub orders 41 *Personification of a snowy season

46 Female deer 47 Charged

particles 48 Attribute (to) 52 Rudder locales 54 Computing pioneer

Lovelace 55 Green

vegetable 56 Some male role models, and what can be found at the starts of the answers to the starred clues 60 Protruding part

of a fedora 62 Speechify 63 Post-it __

64 Like a five-star

hotel

65 Some spouses 66 Actress Arlene 67 Adolescent 68 Part of some

school uniforms 69 Mined materials

DOWN

1 Texas __: poker

variety

2 Nutty Italian

cheese

3 R&B singer

Percy

4 Frog habitat 5 Store locator in a large retail space

Cookies that came in limited-edition Neapolitan and Snickerdoodle flavors in 2022 7 Waffle __

8 Tune

9 Last of a dozen 10 Greek letter that represents 10-Across, in physics

11 Tough stretch of

summer

12 __ Claus: North

Pole resident 13 Cloud’s place 21 Start of a pirate

chant

22 New York canal 26 Ballet class

bend

27 Squeaks (by) 6 29 Email filter

target 30 South Asian

dresses 31 Actor

McGregor 34 Stitched up 35 Wyatt of

Tombstone 36 Neil Gaiman’s

“American __” 37 Very often 38 French phrase meaning “obsession” 42 “__ that the

truth!” 43 Absentees 44 Most clutterfree 1/16/23 45 Online

periodical 49 Commotion 50 Sprout incisors 51 Art studio

stands

53 Budget noodle

dish

54 __-dinner mint 57 Miami Heat coach

Spoelstra 58 Sitarist

Shankar

59 “Go back!” computer command 60 Sandwich letters 61 “You will __

the day!”