Crossword No. 649: Above and Beyond
ACROSS
1 ___ up (excited)
6 Sanditon airer
9 Flip out
14 Chessboard boss
15 Catch a glimpse of
16 Common font
17 Term recently coined by President Biden for Donald Trump’s especially radical followers
19 Part of a pig
20 Make believe
21 Sometimes called
22 Harlem theater
23 Ron Paul frequently warns of it
27 Alaskan animal
28 Struck, as a match
29 Neighbor of China and India
32 ___ tube (TV)
34 Jenga or Yahtzee
38 Like activities mentioned on college applications
41 Score on the ice
42 McEntire of country
43 Broom-___ (comic strip)
44 Reason not to
45 Word in rappers’ names
46 Material useful in creating particle accelerators
54 High points
55 German “A”
56 “What was that name?”
58 Completely, casually
59 Dustin Moskovitz to Democrats or Vince McMahon to Republicans, e.g.
62 Like krypton and neon
63 www.brown.___
64 Cara or Dunne
65 Wasp’s homes
66 Hooded snake
67 Tiny holes
DOWN
1 Light blue
2 Weed-fighting stuff
3 Tending to quibble
4 Suffix with pamphlet or rocket
5 Cold-case evidence
6 Jen who stepped down this month
7 Got started
8 Orca’s home
9 Show that you’re shocked by
10 “...but we could do something else instead”
11 Good dip for fries
12 São ___ (Brazilian city)
13 John of pop
18 Con artist’s target
22 “I was out of town that day,” e.g.
24 Earring material
25 Spanish for “she”
26 Local plants
29 Abbr. in blood types
30 Prefix with skeleton
31 Scholastic org.
32 It’s good in Granada
33 Sphere, poetically
34 Jury’s determination
35 100 percent
36 Alfred E. Neuman’s magazine
37 Noteworthy time
39 Comfy pair
40 In style
44 Reaches a high point
45 The moon, poetically
46 Material for sheets
47 Leading by a run, e.g.
48 “Oh, for ___ sake!”
49 Give, as effort
50 Must have
51 Unearth
52 “For Sale by ___”
53 French river to the Mediterranean
57 Mined materials
59 “Give ___ second”
60 Sudden downturn
61 Cuban gold