THE RANCH PUZZLE

Across

1 Most crafty 7 Production company releasing “Nope” 11 Arctic Monkeys genre

12 Wetlands bird 13 “Planet of the ___” 14 Fantasy book with a movie adaptation that we do not talk about! 16 “No ___, no opinion!” (Rachel Green quote/ protest slogan) 21 Fast-paced card game

24 Period following Fat Tuesday

25 “Law & Order,” e.g.

27 Disney R&D worker 28 Matriarchs and patriarchs

Down

1 Destroy, biblically 2 Ally Sheedy in “The Breakfast Club,” for one 3 Hindu god associated with storms

4 ___ out a living (barely getting by) 5 Notice

6 Emperor Palpatine, e.g.

8 Tart or corn preceder

9 “___ of Spades” (Faridah ÀbíkéÍyímídé novel) 10 Seven-day pds. 15 Event when you might Google “Is Spectrum down right now?” 17 Antelope with graceful horns

18 Bridget in “Bridget Jones’s Diary” 19 “___ Wraps” (DCOM with a mummy) 20 Red-carpet guests 21 Bio or chem

22 ___ Wonderful (company that claimed its juice prevented illness) 23 Beer that might be hazy

26 ___ Scott-Heron (writer of “Whitey on the Moon”)