The BalTimore Sun CroSSword

ACROSS

1 Start of communications with NATO 5 Building blocks 9 Seacrest vehicle,

familiarly 13 Baby hippo 14 Studio Ghibli’s animated fuzz ball

17 Rhyming song

that’s acted out 19 Fanning of

“Coraline” 20 Uber CEO

Khosrowshahi 21 Article in a

French periodical 22 In

24 Some shortcuts 26 “I’m late!” 30 Overflow (with) 31 “Ew, no” 32 Doner __:

Turkish dish 34 Gems formed by

silica deposits 37 Get up 39 Valuable

diamond, say 40 “Ask anyone

else”

41 Change 42 Fuming

44 Shiba __

45 Meet face-toface? 47 Magnified

49 Pro who worked

with Magic 51 “Memories of the Future” author Hustvedt 52 Cribbage piece 53 Just so

55 Figure in a Clement Clarke Moore poem 59 First play written by a Black woman to be produced on Broadway 62 Many a Gillian

Flynn work 63 Gladys Knight,

for one 64 Sardine cans 65 Used cars? 66 With 57-Down,

rom-com trope

DOWN

1 Rock type 2 Dharma teacher 3 Barrage of

criticism 4 Solvent 5 “Easter Parade”

star

6 Spam maker 7 Dispassionate 8 Video game distribution platform

9 A Gershwin 10 Strategically

polite 11 Chiwere

speakers

12 “I’m down” 15 Classic Fender,

for short 16 Message on some holiday cards

18 “That tracks” 23 Home of the Museum of the Future 25 Default action, informally 26 Quick dip? 27 Princess Fiona, after sunset 28 “Nope” 29 Motherof-pearl 33 Part of a full English breakfast 35 Stick figure’s

torso

36 First earring,

maybe

38 Mix 43 Symbol of

Scotland 46 Receive 1/27/24 48 Starting hr. for

some 49 Gymnast Strug 50 Estate 52 Accord 54 Late show broadcaster? 56 “__ of Dogs”:

Wes Anderson film 57 See 66-Across 58 Bedhead problem 60 Cyberchats 61 Composer