Crossword: High Romance
Manaal Mohammed–The Tech
Manaal Mohammed–The Tech
This is a moderately challenging themeless puzzle. Play the interactive version online here.
Across
01 “Great song!”
10 “OK, that’s enough”
13 Something to play
14 “Knives Out” director Johnson
15 Shiftily
16 “The Metamorphosis” protagonist
17 “Turning Red” main character
18 $0.01
19 Engrosses
20 “Celebrity Jeopardy!”, for one
22 Tawny wildcat
23 Colored summer drink
26 Quitter talk
27 Flair
28 Comic book onomatopoeia
29 Software suite for data management
30 “Rocket Man” singer John
32 W-2 num.
33 Blunder
34 pi * r^2, perhaps
35 Talk up
37 One who might be a good neighbor
40 Nethers
41 Slippery
45 Watched the sphynx, say
46 Thieves’ den
47 Christmas contraction
48 Base-8 numbers
49 Differentiated
51 Density markers rhos
52 What Columbus sailed
53 Kids’ time out?
54 Mrs. Quick actress in “Sabrina the Teenage Witch”
Down
01 “____ the breaks”
02 New ____ (Yale location)
03 Letter-shapeed beam
04 ‘60s strikers
05 Introduce
06 Crush, say
07 “Men in Black” role
08 Hide
09 Pig’s digs
10 Photography technique
11 Extinct tusked beast
12 Agitated
14 Poe bird
16 24-down, typically said to a dog
19 Movie starring Audrey Hepburn and Gregory Peck
21 Mud bath locales
24 See 16-down
25 Chess rating
26 Comedian Scott Thompson, familiarly
29 Popular hot sauce
31 “Superman” villain Luthor
32 Flowery szns.
33 “For all intensive purposes” or “expresso” eggcorn
34 One-year record