“The Birthday Game”— not the right calendar section.
ACROSS
1 Rootless aquatic plant
5 “Don’t make me laugh!”
8 Steve Irwin exclamation
14 Mario Kart character
15 Modern prefix with tourism
16 Emu or ostrich, e.g.
17 “The $64,000 Question” emcee born one month too late?
19 “The Audacity of Hope” family
20 Have ___ of mystery
21 Hanna-Barbera feline
23 Ready to leave the queue
25 One of many during 2021 for “Jeopardy!”
26 Mike the Tiger’s sch.
29 Like some ciders
30 “Green Acres” costar Eva
32 Godparent, sometimes
33 “Fences” playwright born four months too soon?
36 Tennis variation
39 2018 Hannah Gadsby stand-up special with quite a few serious moments
40 “Mad Men” actress born ... in exactly the right month?
42 Take ___ (lose money)
43 Purchasing agent
44 Onyx or opal
47 College maj. for instrumentalists 48 Tabletop gamer, stereotypically
50 Unlikely to fall over
52 Girl with a flock
54 “___ Rock ‘n’ Roll” (Joan Jett & the Blackhearts song)
55 Leo’s home?
58 Queen guitarist/astrophysicist born two months too late?
60 Mission to the moon
61 French dressing ingredient no longer regulated by the FDA
62 Frigid finish
63 Most bleached out
64 T-shirt size that may cost slightly more
65 SFO listings
DOWN
1 Convenient
2 Ride while you wait for repairs
3 Andromeda, for one
4 Fess up
5 “I’m with ___” (2016 campaign slogan)
6 Bank holding, briefly
7 Sounds from mall Santas
8 Holey footwear
9 Morocco’s capital
10 “Let’s just leave ___ that”
11 Family that runs the “Convenience” store in a Canadian sitcom
12 Greek vowel
13 “That’s pretty much it” 18 Rocket, in the U.S.
22 Surname of Roth’s complainer
24 Alerter of the 2000s
26 Deadly sin
27 Little twerp
28 “Reader” whose last print edition was in 2019
31 Industrious sort
32 Taproom orders
33 Push up against 34 Decreases
35 Newtonian topic
36 Late performer who once dated Nicole Richie and Mandy Moore
37 “Hawaii Five-O” setting
38 Les Etats-___
41 Bar fixture
44 Wallace’s dog
45 Composer Grieg
46 “Aaagh! That’s way too bright!”
48 Count for MLS or NHL games
49 Disney World attraction
51 Arm bones
52 Liver secretion
53 Grand ___ (auto race)
55 Anti-mosquito device sound
56 ___-Locka, Florida
57 U.S. currency
59 Not feeling so good