Crossword Edited by Will Shortz

PUZZLE BY PATRICK JOHN DUGGAN

ACROSS 37 Sea that’s fed 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13

1 Former British by the Jordan

colony whose River 14 15 16

national flag 38 Big name in

17 18 19
includes the sandals
Union Jack 39 One in a state 20 21
5 It might slowly of disbelief
grow on you 42 Bigwig in the 22 23

10 Be hot and admissions

bothered dept.? 24 25 26 27 28

14 Freshly 44 Like some 29 30 31

enemies
15 Like Venus
vis-à-vis 45 Devil-may-care 32 33 34 35 36

Serena Williams 46 Member of high

37 38
16 Part of YOLO society?
49 He wrote “All 39 40 41 42 43
17 Putdown to a good things
klutz, in dated are wild and 44 45
slang free”
20 They’re open to 52 “Let me be 46 47 48 49 50 51
change frank …”
52 53
21 From which we 54 Writer who
get “Hakuna founded 54 55 56
matata” Objectivism
22 Politician’s 55 Striped cat 57 58 59
platform
56 Author of the
23 Drags six-book poem 8/19/22

24 The drinks are “Fasti” DOWN 13 Like policies 37 Kicking and

on me! 57 They move prohibited by screaming, often
1 Unfading
27 Maximally neat around in Title IX 38 Russian ___
orbits 2 Flying 18 Leave stunned, (iconic restaurant
29 Opera daughter 58 Knocks dead in a way near New York’s
of Amonasro 3 What makes
59 Like casting you question 19 Go for a bite, say Central Park)
30 Green sort Michael Keaton everything you 39 Have a target
24 Be up
32 Shot in “Birdman” as know? 40 Involving a give-
an actor who 25 With 5-Down, and-take
33 Selfish demand 4 Literally, “sulfur Nobel Prize-
used to play a
34 Part of a cup superhero island” winning pioneer 41 Scorcher
5 See 25-Down in atomic theory 43 Projecting front
ANSWER TO PREVIOUS PUZZLE 6 Eugene O’Neill’s
26 Ill-suited 47 Many fire dept.
“Desire Under 27 Dwarf planet members, by
A L B S E T C H E R B E E the ___” between Mars training
B A I T C H R O M E C A S T and Jupiter 48 Mideast capital
7 Big scene
C U K E H E A V E NONE A R T H 28 Dawn 49 Big purveyor of
8 Races, in a way frozen desserts
T R I E S O U T T V T R A Y 31 Jazz great Evans
V A NIL L A S E P I A E S L 9 Acted sketchy? 50 Cries for attention
33 Central part of
D I S C S A C D C 10 Shelter from town: Abbr. 51 Certification
B E N S A N D S A P I A N attack letters
34 It’s not your fault
A R E S L AUGHT E S T A N T E 53 L.A. and N.Y.C.
11 As opposed to 35 “Oh, just stop!”
O N S E T I C E I T B O W are each
C O M E C A R O M 12 Runs up and 36 Something to represented in it
R O B P A R S E M A X I M down? shoot for twice
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