The Week (US)

Crossword No. 649: Above and Beyond

- By Matt Gaffney

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

 ?? ??

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