The Columbus Dispatch

CROSSWORD NO. 2 BABY TALK

- By Paul Coulter (and Ava Coulter, age 2)

ACROSS

1 Website for film

buffs

5 Machine workers?

9 Splinter groups

14 Crime film genre

15 Artificial bait

16 Be of use

17 Graduate’s school (notice letters 3-6 in this clue’s answer)

19 Land, in Lyon

20 Fat source from a

tree

21 ___ by the light

23 “Don’t give up!”

24 Face-to-face

exam

26 Taking care of

business

27 Became less emotionall­y involved with (letters 4-7)

31 Disrespect­s

34 No longer edible

35 Name hidden in

“Friday”

36 1982 film inspired

by “Pong”

37 Dell products

38 Battery contents

39 Monk’s condition,

briefly

40 Batman and Robin,

e.g.

41 Like the Witch of

the West

43 Juliet’s words before “That which we call a rose” (letters 7-10)

47 Good kind of

market

DOWN

1 Not suitable

2 Back biter?

3 How a bar may be

lit

4 “Dracula” author

Stoker

5 Fashion/jewelry

chain

6 Ban

7 Coll. senior’s test,

maybe

8 Belgrade resident

9 Smooth and

lustrous

10 No matter

whether

11 One might involve making a king disappear

12 Word before “rotation” or “swing”

13 Coaster?

18 Sculptor Henry © 2021 ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATIO­N.

48 Loads and loads

49 U.K. military branch

with jets

52 Hamsterlik­e pets

55 Hot, in Vegas

57 Saved on supper,

perhaps

58 It celebrates 1867’s Constituti­on Act (letters 5-8)

60 Reeked

61 Syrian, say

62 Viral internet

item

63 Like a baby’s arms,

usually

64 Russo of “Ransom”

65 Deserving a “D”

grade

22 Amount of work

25 Garment that sounds like a certain dog’s hair

27 Channel whose first letter stands for “Game”

28 Exists no

longer

29 “Garfield” dog

30 Road safety org.

31 Tuck away

32 Curve, as an

eyebrow

33 Irish loaf

37 Groaner

38 ___ up one’s

sleeve

40 Pickle flavoring

41 Fame-hungry

person

42 What :-( means

44 Riding down a

river, in a way

45 Toy used on a

staircase

46 “Babe” director

Chris

49 Contest with bronc

riding

50 1836 battle site in

Texas

51 Philadelph­ia

hockey pro

52 Have a sudden

inspiratio­n?

53 “___, Brute?”

54 Lasting mark

56 Alternativ­e to

steps

59 “Whose side ___

you on?”

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