BARRED CROSSWORD

SOLUTION BELOW

Across

1 Comedy club razzer (7) 8 Sundance Film Festival

state (4)

12 The tiniest bit (7) 13 Org. with a vegan

starter kit (4)

14 Squash underfoot (7) 15 Uno + dos (4)

16 Become familiar with

gradually (8) 18 Unaccounted-for GI,

perhaps (3)

19 Kind of returns (11) 22 Not have ___ to stand

on (4)

23 Sporty coupes, for

short (3)

25 Word form for “within”

(4)

27 Exaggerated tales (11) 31 Orbiting research

facility (Abbr.) (3) 32 Involving important

people, as a meeting (8) 35 Morales on “Criminal

Minds” nowadays (4) 36 Excessive forms and

such (7)

38 Winter Olympics sport that originated in Switzerland (4) 39 Passed in great

numbers (7) 40 Worrisome grades (4) 41 What all people are, per

the Bible (7)

Down

1 Washed (down), as a

sidewalk (5) 2 Necessarily include (6) 3 Wall St. bigwigs (4) 4 “Not Tonight” rapper Lil’

___ (3)

5 Taking long strides (6) 6 School James Bond

attended (4)

7 Goes on a tweetstorm

(5)

8 Swamped, idiomatically

(8)

9 Bus lines’ end points (7) 10 Stayed home for supper

(5)

11 Tries one’s hand (at) (6) 17 Octogenarian’s decade

(8)

20 Text transmission (7) 21 Morticia Addams’ cousin

(3)

22 Out of one’s depth (6) 24 Favorably impressed

with (6)

26 Not as superficial (6) 28 Twelfth of a

subscription, often (5) 29 Puts into separate piles

(5)

30 What the Olympic sport of skeleton involves (5)

33 Gilpin of “Frasier” (4) 34 Smoke, as an ecig (4) 37 Two thousand pounds

(3)