CROSSWORD II

12/24 ACROSS

1 Government probe org.? 5 “My bad!” 15 Famous ___ cookies 16 Total ecstasy’s opposite 17 Sassy 18 American or

Spirit 22 ___ Doone

cookies

23 Polish

language? 25 Jinx

27 Polite address with an apostrophe 28 Hoppy beer, for

short

31 “Don’t worry” 32 Like some holey

sweaters 34 Ungendered

pronoun

35 Part of

28-Across 36 Defeatist’s

word 37 Caribbean dances spelled similarly to French cookies 40 “When We Were 19 Rectangular Very Young” replacement author A.A. for a square 41 Triage sites in a meal hosp.

21 Perfect or Pointy parts of

present elves 42 43 Women

44 Ubud Monkey Forest’s Indonesian island 45 Sealy competitor 46 Woolgather? 49 LAX employees

with strict rules 53 The One Ring, to

Gollum 55 Stand-up pioneer Mort

56 Like software that can be freely modified 57 Timber source 58 Deteriorates 59 Hearty bowlful

DOWN

1 Where to pick up the pick of the litter

2 Prayer ending 3 Gamers who

rage-quit, e.g. 4 Former stadium for Houston’s MLB team

5 “In my opinion,

we shouldn’t” 6 ___ Inu (Akita’s

smaller cousin) 7 Michael of

“Juno”

8 Makes again 9 Important

stretch

10 What precedes a period of peace 11 “Snowy” bird 12 Slay

13 French ones 14 Funeral blaze 20 Understand,

informally 24 “Well,

lah-di-___!” 25 Blackjack

order

26 Last option on a

survey, often 27 Beauty marks 28 Works by Caravaggio, Botticelli, etc. 29 Pasta sometimes served “alla vodka” 30 Pays to play

poker 32 East African nation once home to the dodo 33 Crucial

examinations 38 Least remote 39 Woman seen in

“conga lines” 40 Taco Tuesday

cocktail, briefly 43 Didn’t buy, as a

vehicle 44 Hoedown

venues 45 Hollandaise, for

one

46 Urban visibility

hazard

47 Prefix meaning

“under” 48 Duelist’s sword 50 In need of a massage, perhaps 51 What you used

to be?

52 A whole bunch 54 Dove’s murmur