The BalTimore Sun CroSSword

ACROSS

1 Push, as a

button

6 Scuff, say

9 Air rifle

14 Mint with a

Coca-Cola flavor 16 Language suffix 17 Russian crepes 18 Single-celled

creature

19 Pint equivalent 21 “Yellowjackets”

actress Purnell 23 Customizable

Nintendo avatar 24 Actress Falco 25 DC Comics’ Clown Princess of Crime 29 Re-re-rereminds 30 “Rudy” coach

Parseghian 31 WrestleMania

win

32 Facts, for short 34 Clobbers,

quaintly

37 __ Buddhism 39 Tennis icon

Arthur 42 Members of royal courts who may be crowned at halftime 46 Like a Mega Millions jackpot winner

47 NYSE debut 48 Open, as a

onesie

49 Noisy car part 51 “Weekend Update” comic Michael

53 LED TV brand 54 Ball in a craft

store

57 Deluxe

61 Mine, in

Marseille 62 22-Down

monitoring org. 63 Aquatic

mammal

64 Feels

apprehensive 67 Planet orbited by a moon named Margaret 71 Outperform 72 Official calling pitch clock violations

73 City east of Los

Angeles 74 Desert

sanctuaries 75 Part of LGBTQ+ 76 Teen sleuth

Drew

DOWN

27 Maguire’s 1 Booster gp. for “Spider-Man”

schools director 2 Crater’s 28 Open, as a gym

edge bag

3 __ mode: 33 Mythical energy-saving man-goat car setting 35 Method

4 Iron alloy 36 Reverberate 5 Ferret’s 38 Father of

cousin Methuselah 6 “Not my 40 Painter

fave” Matisse 7 “Same for 41 Make into law

me” 43 Headphone jack 8 Replacing insert the inner layer 44 Get in line of 45 Fix, at the vet’s 9 Smoky chip office

flavor, briefly 50 Actress 10 Puritanical Seehorn

people 11 Celebrity chef De

Laurentiis 12 Strip of

equipment 13 Informal

evenings 15 Caribbean music

genre 20 Literary

Huckleberry 22 Pollution stat 25 __ browns 26 Samurai’s

protection 5/16/23 52 Command ctrs., and a description of five answers in this puzzle 54 “Yippee!” 55 Appliance maker 56 Tokens of love 58 Letter before

delta

59 Yankee slugger

Judge 60 Peruvian pack

animal

65 FedEx rival 66 Eve in “Killing

Eve,” for one 68 The “N” of NFT 69 Mom’s bro 70 “May I

just __ ... “