CROSSWORD PUZZLE

ACROSS

1 One-named “Baby Beluga” singer

6 EMT skill

9 Longtime ThinkPad maker

12 With 12-Down, mantra on embracing difficulty

13 Bun holder

15 Incentives

16 “It’s curtains for me!”

17 Río contents

18 __ roast: Sunday entrée

20 Grace of “Will & Grace”

21 __ Andreas Fault

22 With 22-Down, idiom meaning “easy peasy”

24 Party coolerful

25 Young’uns

27 Lizzo genre

28 Exams for srs.

29 Gobble (up)

30 With 30-Down, aphorism excusing misconduct that didn’t cause damage

32 Simple camera setting

34 McFlurry cookies

36 Sleeping sickness carrier

40 __ bene

42 Part of a schmear campaign?

43 __ gin fizz

44 With 44-Down, expression describing an absence without leave

46 Baseball hats

48 Golden Rule preposition

50 Jekyll’s alter ego

51 Unopened

52 Most aged

54 Barnyard bird

55 Floppy successors

57 Members of a cabal, maybe

59 __ projection

60 Acts like a helicopter parent

61 Get beaten by

62 Worker’s hourly pay

DOWN

1 Domed building

2 Samoan capital

3 Best-liked, in texts

4 1980s Pontiacs

5 “Long story short ... “

6 Nabisco brand

7 Tennis pundit Shriver

8 Poet Dove

9 Home of Firenze

10 Halve

11 Scotland yards?

12 See

12-Across

14 __ and reel

15 Mardi Gras accessories

19 Wall, in Spanish

22 See

22-Across

23 Practice boxing

26 “Dang!”

28 Kiss

30 See

30-Across

31 Silver State city

33 __ Aviv

35 “Don’t move!”

36 “No Scrubs” pop trio

37 Real blanketyblank

38 Aces

39 Takes interest,

maybe

41 Catkin trees

44 See

44-Across

45 Fresnel __: lighthouse installation

47 Promised

49 Part of STEM, briefly

52 Home of the Munch Museum

53 Brand of sport sandals

55 Baseball’s “Iron Man” Ripken

56 Bath rug

58 “The Princess Diaries” novelist Cabot