The BalTimore Sun CroSSword

ACROSS

1 Striped pet

6 “__ chic!” 10 Gear tooth 13 Sprightly 14 Bridge

predecessor 15 Back on

a ship 16 *Research without direct application 18 Spending power,

for short

19 “No Ordinary

Love” singer 20 Eleven

digits? 21 Treadmill

setting 23 *Czechoslovakian movement of 1968

27 Yuletide song 28 33-Across

years

29 Paper or

plastic

30 Father of the

Muses

33 Score half 34 *Helpline

offering

38 “I see,” at sea 39 Noodle nugget 40 “Why Mosquitoes Buzz in People’s __”: Caldecott Medal winner by Verna Aardema 41 Policy of some

restaurants 44 “An Caighdeán Oifigiúil” language 45 *Commerce

imbalance 49 Recycle bin,

e.g.

50 Shades 51 Becomes

compost 55 “Gross!”

56 *Spot for coins, and what five letters do in the answer to each starred clue? 59 Baseball great

Ripken

60 Comes up

against

61 Isaac of “Moon

Knight”

62 U-turn from

WSW 63 Response heard during a pool game

64 Pier

DOWN

1 Spigots

2 Río flower

3 __ of paradise 4 Cover up, in a

way

5 [Nod]

6 Org. with 27

member states 7 Salon procedure 8 Key to going

back?

9 Grassy expanse 10 Word on an Italian menu that means “hunter” 11 Those at fault 12 Classic Pontiac

muscle car 14 Annex 17 Anthracite or

lignite

22 __ de Triomphe 24 Nevada city about 100 miles from Burning Man

25 The Aztecs of the NCAA’s Mountain West Conf.

26 Bloke

27 Center of a 3-4 football defense 29 Spanish dialect

in the Big Apple 30 Character debuted by Zadie Smith?

31 Poetic

preposition 32 Can. neighbor 34 “You __ be

serious”

35 Leave out 36 Home of many Quechua speakers 37 Means to an

end?

42 Final words of

an engagement 43 Top removed before dashing off?

2/16/23

44 Conditional programming word

46 Mover’s

rental

47 Cost 48 Identifies

(as)

52 Largest member of the dolphin family

53 Leader in the Bulgarian Empire

54 Feudal laborer 55 Diamonds, in

slang

57 “Last Week Tonight” network 58 “Bam!” kin