The BalTimore Sun CroSSword

ACROSS

1 Meet portion, or

portion of meat 4 Film franchise featuring Lightning McQueen 8 Regarding 13 Portfolio options, for short

15 Perched on 16 Deteriorating 17 “Mrs. Frisby and

the Rats of __” 18 NYC gallery with a Bell helicopter on display 19 Melted together 20 Dinner roll that provides an unexpected boost?

23 Pool necessity 24 Had as a regular

customer 27 Outlandish stories about Vietnamese soup?

32 Bulky boats 34 Lithium-__

battery 35 Seized auto 36 Tease

mercilessly 37 Valued at one

fancy ballpoint? 42 Texter’s

“But ... “43 “Monday Night Football” commentator Aikman

44 Young man 45 Anklebones 46 Golfers who just need to dance, dance, dance before every drive? 49 Stretching

muscle 51 Common

Market letters 52 Chophouse order, and an apt title for this puzzle?

58 Silky fabric 61 The “genu-” in

“genuflect” 62 American tennis

phenom Gauff 63 Begins 64 Low-pH stuff 65 Is shy 66 Play area 67 Egg layers 68 After taxes

DOWN

1 Command to a

prompter 2 Actress

Moriarty who plays Starlight on “The Boys” 3 PlayStation, for

one

4 Strappy top, for

short 5 Comprehensive 6 Trevi Fountain

city

7 Like Greenland’s

population 8 “Zero stars” 9 Edge

10 Sterile work

environs 11 Employ 12 “Thank you for coming to my __ Talk” 14 Azalea, e.g. 21 Park and drive 22 “If I Were a __”:

Beyoncé ballad 25 Horseracing

achievement 26 “Will do,

hon” 27 Crochet loop 28 Heckle 29 Seydoux of “No Time to Die”

30 On the facing

pg. 31 Compass

dirección 33 Mails 38 Watering

down 39 Tarzan creator’s monogram 40 Also

41 Blood groups 1/20/23

46 AAA job 47 Neo-soul artist

Badu

48 Boxer’s favorite

store, maybe? 50 Feel

53 “... cut __”: end of a carpentry maxim

54 Bridle strap 55 Canvas shoe

brand

56 Frozen treat

brand

57 Station 58 Distress signal 59 Likely (to) 60 Leaves for dim

sum