CROSSWORD NO. 2 POOF!

ACROSS

1 Shoot an air ball,

perhaps

5 Airport vehicles

9 Black jack, half the

time

13 Wild way to run

14 Tons

15 Come about

16 Garment worn in

Bengaluru

17 Regan’s regal

father

18 West pointers,

sometimes?

19 Dry run of a

precollege exam

22 Strive (for)

23 Took a risk

24 Radiologists’

imaging devices

28 Just ___ water

31 Drag queens’

neckwear

32 Down Under

hopper

33 Undesirable low

interest?

35 In a position to

help

36 Dog collar

attachment

39 Skin concern for a

teen

40 Head lock?

42 Brew that may be

hazy

43 Let off steam

44 Largest ethnic

group in China 45 Moment of liftoff,

usually

49 Tire or escalator

part

51 Styling product

52 Magician’s feat, and a hint to the starts of 19-, 24and 45-Across

59 Behind the times

60 271 square miles,

for Micronesia

61 Rights advocacy

grp.

62 Curling item

63 Lender’s holding

64 Utah national park

65 Pulls, as a vehicle

66 Seasoning in

savory lassi

67 Upper hand

DOWN

1 Dough for tamales

2 Big Apple

purchase?

3 Put into groups

4 Tickets to access

the slopes

5 Fried squid dish

6 Name that

anagrams to “Clea”

7 Word after “life” or

“dream”

8 Big step

9 Fruit-shipping box

10 One may do the

Macarena

11 Slicing and dicing,

e.g., for a knife © 2022 ANDREWS MCMEEL SYNDICATION.

12 Inferior to none

15 Opposed (to)

20 “___ Flair Drip”

(2018 rap hit)

21 Toy that may be

remote-controlled

24 Snake with a hood

25 Grade school variety performance

26 Nonverbally agree

27 Out of office

29 “I haven’t the

faintest idea”

30 Food regimen

31 Relaxing soak

34 Practice selfabsorbed introspection

37 Kwik-e-mart

operator

38 Saturn, for one

41 Unforested

Eurasian plain

46 Dora’s navigational

companion

47 Exemplary

standards

48 Meditative sect of

Buddhism

50 Falls in drops

52 Bite the ___ (lose)

53 Really digging

54 Piece that a diva

practices

55 Film spool

56 The “A” of DNA

57 Plumber’s woe

58 Make less sharp,

say?