Crossword: Half Baked
This is a lightly challenging themeless puzzle. Play the online version here.
Across
1 Separate checks
8 Pawns on a chessboard, say
13 More bogged
15 Follicular or luteal, perhaps
16 Guam natives
18 Seasons
19 November 1 experience, perhaps
21 Let go
22 "Emotion" artist Carly ___ Jepsen
23 Ornamented tobacco case
25 Base of a number system
28 "Surprise!"
29 Thor's father
30 Sudoku entries, briefly
31 Pea nut?
36 "No problem!"
38 Menorahs and dreidels, e.g.
39 Oscillate, say
40 Untrustworthy, slangily
41 Draft
42 Sound investment?
44 Zellweger of "Bridget Jones' Diary"
45 54-down in Somerville, for one
49 Fire engines, notably
50 Pizazz
51 Historical foreign exchange program?
56 ____ Fisher ("Eighth Grade" actress)
58 Worked up
59 Cry of innocence
60 Advil, perhaps
61 T-bone, for one
62 Takes no action against
Down
1 Sonoma and Acadia
2 Luigi Mangione home, once
3 ____ race
4 Amphibious armed forces
5 Chest
6 Popular Madeline Miller book
7 Frau's partner
8 "Call of Duty: Black ___"
9 Refuse
10 Aqib ___ (former NFL player)
11 Aero-____
12 Neuter
14 Some chestnut preparations
17 Tax 30-across
20 Arab dip
24 RSS, for one
25 Noted flag sewer
26 Together, musically
27 ____ straits
28 F-, perhaps
30 Rulers of South Asian states, historically
32 Casually mentions someone so as to impress
33 "In and Out of the Shadows" singer
34 "___ homo"
35 Michigan, for one
37 Low islands
38 Stick (out)
40 PIpsqueak
43 Cod or Verde
44 Shade again
45 Many new drivers
46 Portion
47 Speed ____
48 Feminine side, according to Jung
49 Fasten once more
52 Undesirable stocking stuffer
53 Indigo source
54 "The Great Masturbator" artist
55 Vogue competitor
57 "A mouse!"