CROSSWORD PUZZLE
ACROSS
1 Improve one’s
class?
11 Quick
16 Alcopop kin
17 Bring out
18 Single, but way
too flawed
19 Giant
20 Polish site
21 “Git!”
22 Nucleotide
triplet
23 Test for some
srs.
24 Cena of
“Peacemaker”
25 Mariah Carey
holiday hit
27 Resort town named for a native tree
29 Mixed __
30 Full of nervous
energy
33 “The Rotters’ Club” novelist Jonathan
34 Current events TikTok segment that V Spehar broadcasts from their office floor
39 Milne hopper
40 Famished
41 Holiness
44 Étouffée
option
47 Arctic wear
48 1856 Stowe
novel
50 Umbrella spoke
52 Word in British
placenames
53 Natural satellite 54 “Have it your
way”
55 Dong-hyuk who created “Squid Game”
56 “Can I have a bit
more time?”
58 Make one
59 Wheelie bike
feature
60 Mascot whose weight is listed as “Top Heavy”
61 Challenges for a translator, perhaps
DOWN
1 Chased a pitch
2 Kwanzaa candelabra
3 West __
4 Toll
5 Do one’s part?
6 Walks out, say
7 Laurel and Hardy producer
8 First British martyr
9 Scapula neighbor, for short
10 Long start, once
11 Throw again
12 Brand whose website has a “3 Stripe Life” section
13 Table
14 “Maybe later”
15 Cozy spot
22 Queen’s gambit, for one
24 Raspberry
25 Elizabeth who plays Scarlet
Witch in the MCU
26 Improves,
maybe
28 Tense
beginning?
29 Eliot title hero
31 “__ how I roll”
32 Tax
34 Bear up?
35 “It went straight
to voice mail”
36 2014 memoir subtitled “Stories of Life,
Death, and Brain Surgery”
37 Western Asia
native
38 Govt. cybersecurity monitor
42 [I’m so uncomfortable right now]
43 Retailer with a RedCard credit card
45 Bell hooks, for
one 46 Time slot with talk shows
48 Part of
DKNY
49 “Succession”
sibling
51 Tops
53 Happy __
54 Make one
55 “Let me
think ... “
56 “Full Frontal”
network
57 D.C. player