The BalTimore Sun CroSSword

ACROSS

Finishes

Spill the beans Chest muscle, for short

12 In __ of

13 Credit card user 14 “It follows logically that ...

“

15 Maintain

16 “Me too,” more

formally

17 State of mind 18 Make a real

mess

21 Chillingly

strange 22 “Pronto!” 23 Many moons __ 26 Rightmost computer menu, often

28 Cloak and __ 30 Tortoise’s fabled

competitor 33 Gymnastics rings position held with the body parallel to the ground 36 Norse god of war 37 Collaborative

sites 1 5 9 38 Another, in

Spanish 39 Feature of some

espadrilles 41 Witnessed 42 Swim team

swimwear 43 Toward sunrise 46 Extra sports

periods, briefly 47 Per person 50 Chops, as an

onion

53 Forcemultiplying device that can be found at the beginning of

18-, 33-, and 39-Across 57 Japanese noodle 59 Dog collar

dangler 60 Notion

61 Come to a stop 62 “You’ve got

some __!” 63 Shakespeare’s

mad king 64 “Yellowjackets”

network, briefly 65 Mardi __: preLenten festival 66 Annoys

DOWN

27 Ballet barre 1 Part of BPOE bend 2 Nephew’s 29 Pepper in

sister extremely 3 Brand of riding hot curry

mowers dishes

4 Ruins at 30 “Can you Durrington explain?” Walls that once 31 Skilled (at) consisted of 32 Works alone wooden posts, 34 __ out a win: not stones almost lose 5 Giant party 35 Disgusting 6 Winona’s 37 Extraordinarily “Beetlejuice”

large role

40 Dutch cheese 7 Very long time

44 “Better late 8 Units led by

than never,” colonels

e.g. 9 Grow cuttings from a succulent, say 10 Alter __ 11 Fish that may be

black or blue 13 Dev of “Lion” 14 Down Under bird 19 Golfer Michelle

__ West 20 Practice in the

ring 24 Bookstore

section

25 Liver, for one

12/26/23

45 [as per the

original]

48 More mature 49 Historic site in Jordan known as the Rose City 51 Duck down

52 Go on tiptoe 54 Picked-off pass,

for short

55 Big D NBA

squad 56 Prominent feature of a fennec fox 57 Hesitation

syllables 58 Lah-di-__