The BalTimore Sun CroSSword

ACROSS

1 5 9

Puzzle (out) Synonymous Software glitches

13 Leg joint 14 Slacks, slangily 15 Fall birthstone 16 Thing

17 Wag

18 Like an

unswept hearth 19 Watering hole where servers may wear leis 21 Animal Planet’s “Crikey! It’s the Irwins” co-star 23 Dead __ Scrolls 24 “The Memory

of Trees” singer 26 Youngsters 29 Quote 31 Linguist

Chomsky

33 Org. concerned with “forever chemicals” 34 Language related to

Czech

36 SHO subsidiary 37 Yemeni port 38 Residence 39 Pal

41 F-150 maker 42 Catch

43 Spy-fi org. 44 Breathing

room 46 Unceasingly, in

poetry

47 Policy pro 48 Home turf? 49 President __ 51 Pedicure

targets 53 Saturn or

Mercury 56 Asia’s __

Peninsula 58 Verification tool for online alcohol retailers, e.g. 60 Not that 62 Way to go 64 Furniture retailer that sells FIXA tool kits

65 Remove from

power

66 Lip 67 Clockwork part 68 __ of life 69 “Clue” actress

Madeline 70 Systems of

principles

DOWN

1 Funny sketches 2 Loosen, as a

bow

3 *Act the

mediator 4 Interstate rig 5 Tale

6 Craft for the first couples cruise? 7 Chandon’s

partner 8 *Illinois alma mater of Ronald Reagan 9 Scrabble

surface 10 Desserts flipped after baking, and what can be found in the answers to the starred clues 11 Exasperated

cry 12 Underhanded 17 *”Malcolm in the Middle” actress

20 __ test

22 Lip

25 Like the Dada

movement 27 Judith Weir

composition 28 Blondish 30 Tony winner

Judith 32 Astonished

letters 34 Subject of a late-night countdown 35 Also-ran 37 Three or four

3/21/24 40 Soccer star

Hamm

45 Let (up) 47 Cartoon frame 50 Officiate at a

cook-off, say 52 Like some

granola 54 First-stringers 55 Brings up 57 Jedi with an unusual speech pattern 59 Supermodel

Hadid

60 Small fry 61 “Ben-__” 63 Exasperated

cry