CROSSWORD NO. 2
ACROSS
1 “That’s my cue!”
5 The 411
9 Story with a moral
14 One of 500 at
Daytona
15 Amanda Gorman or
Langston Hughes
16 Lubricated
17 “... plus, a certain smoked fish is another favorite of mine”?
20 Actress Davis
21 Advil competitor
22 Edgar Allan ___
23 Goof up
24 Biological pouch
26 Glowing review
28 Ares’ mother
29 Landforms at river
mouths
33 Shredding
company?
37 Defunct Swedish
car brand
38 Org. concerned
with cybersecurity
39 Brainstorming
result
40 Flexible
spectacles?
45 Empty ___ (certain
parent)
46 Foot’s curve
47 Move like a shark
49 Org. concerned
with cannabis
50 “The Simpsons” character critiqued by Hari Kondabolu
53 “___ knows?” 56 Blue toon in a mushroom-shaped home
58 Rapper Kendrick
60 Pitcher’s boast
during a shutout?
63 Water filter brand
64 Person you
idealize
65 ACL’S leg part
66 Fidgety
67 Talks incessantly
68 Auctioneer’s last
word
DOWN
1 What a P.R. agent
cultivates
2 One may dig for
coal
3 ___ and wiser
4 Rejection in Berlin
5 Wall St. debut
6 Sign at a full motel
7 Have a sense
8 “Something else”
category
9 Eternally
10 What a snowboarder catches, slangily
11 Plane, say, on a
radar screen
12 Jay who hosted “The Tonight Show”
13 Sharp part of a
knife
18 Powerful beam
19 Cleverly avoid
25 Singer Grande, to
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27 “Lord of the Rings” language for pointy-eared beings
28 Bad ones are hard
to break
30 Natural destroyer
of sandcastles
31 Las Vegas 53-Down
team
32 The Mediterranean,
for one
33 Record on video
34 Corn servings
35 Concert, for a band
36 Small utensil
37 Identity thief’s
target, briefly
41 Long Island paper
42 Filthy
43 “___ you serious?”
44 Climb up
48 Like an overripe
pear
50 ___ acid (protein
component)
51 Solar energy device
52 Encouraged
53 Hoops org. for
Diamond Deshields
54 What you may hit when you’re in a jam
55 Memorial bio
57 Name hidden in
“overheard”
59 Vessels like Noah’s
61 Extra hockey
periods: Abbr.
62 ___ Def (rapper)