THE MTV PUZZLE

Across

1 One of Santa’s reindeer who’s also a love god? 6 Stuff often

analyzed on “CSI” 9 First name in

pricey shoes

10 In medias ___ 11 Olivia Rodrigo song up for a Video of the Year VMA

12 Show with Sofia Vergara on the judging panel, for short

13 Genre for Skrillex and Calvin Harris 14 Language on the job

16 Senator Lisa Murkowski, for one

18 Ed Sheeran song up for a Video of the Year VMA 21 Doja Cat song up for a Video of the Year VMA 22 Member of the Super Bowl LVI– winning squad 25 European peak 26 Catcher Adley Rutschman, for one

29 “How Far ___ Go” (“Moana” tune) 30 Recent reason to get rid of your Banana Boat hair spray

31 Team on top of the AL East

32 Partner of each

Down

1 World Series of Poker item 2 E pluribus ___ 3 Stuff that’s in the “Weeds”? 4 Dockworkers’ grp. 5 1/200,000th of Jinkx Monsoon’s prize on “RuPaul’s Drag Race: All-Stars” 6 Imbibed

7 Ruth of “Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.” 8 ___ Martin (James Bond’s favorite car) 9 Honor for Adele and Ed Sheeran (abbr.) 15 Cooperative project involving NASA, JAXA, and others

16 She directed David in “Selma” 17 Free-Range Kids advocate Skenazy 18 Dominique who played Lolita

19 One of “The Girls Next Door”

20 Say without saying 22 “I got the eye of the tiger” Katy Perry bop

23 Role for Calista from 1997 to 2002 24 Either of two

Spice Girls

27 One of MLK

Jr.’s titles

28 Makeup of many a “Mario” level