The BalTimore Sun CroSSword

ACROSS

1 Have an ugly

cry

5 Fly through the

air

9 Barked

14 Eight, in Spanish 15 Give a darn 16 “__!” ... “Polo!” 17 Curtain holder in

a bathroom 19 Situation with a player at first, say

20 Peaceful 21 Commercial

lead-in to “bnb” 23 Gaelic speaker 24 French fashion

initials

25 Purple flower with a fuzzy patch

28 Country singer

Loretta 29 Scotch’s partner 30 Naked

33 Stomp on the

gas

36 Govt. intel org. 39 “We’re almost there!,” and what can be said about 17-, 25-, 51-, and 64-Across? 43 Unnaturally pale 44 Construct

45 Film spool 46 Root vegetable in Nigerian cuisine

48 Lawn tool 51 Orange marker in a construction zone

55 Work on a quilt 58 Wild canine 59 “Dance the Night” singer __ Lipa

60 Like some

albums

62 Show host 64 Student at the top of the honor roll

66 Jump back, say 67 Sheet of paper 68 Hatchling’s

home

69 Cities with

harbors 70 Post-blizzard

blanket

71 __ and crafts

DOWN

1 Like an overbearing older sibling 2 Is sore 3 Pattern of 31 Exclamation of spirals on a understanding fingerprint 32 Vehicle picked 4 Actor Rob of up at an airport, “Parks and maybe Recreation” 34 Golden State 5 Bug keeperouter sch. on a 35 The “N” of TNT window 37 “__ Persisted”: 6 Rowboat rower children’s book 7 Noisy, as a by Chelsea

crowd Clinton 8 Fixed up again 38 Ga. capital 9 “Yo te __”

40 Maker of 10 Putrid

squishy darts 11 Allowed to roam,

41 Humanlike as chickens 12 Gut bacteria robot 13 Heading on a 42 Anger list of actions to 47 Move avoid emotionally 18 Phonetic term often associated with they/them pronouns 22 Sticky tree

secretion 26 “The Hate U Give” writer Thomas 27 Connect the __ 28 Big name in

jeans 30 Short “While I’m thinking of it ...

“

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49 Composer Lloyd

Webber

50 Save

51 Little

troublemaker 52 Juliet’s partner 53 Zodiac transition

points

54 Board game that dropped “The Settlers of” from its name 55 “Terrific!”

56 Are

57 Swollen marks 61 Name that

means “moon” 63 UFO pilots 65 Back in time