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Crossword: Free Skate

10275 the tech 2024 grid
The blank of the Vol. 144 Issue 1's crossword, Free Skate.
Mehek Gosalia–The Tech
10276 the tech 2024 solution
The solutions of the Vol. 144 Issue 1's crossword, Free Skate.
Mehek Gosalia–The Tech

This is a challenging themeless puzzle constructed by Mehek Gosalia and edited by Manaal Mohammed. Play the interactive version online here.

 

Across
1    Lund in Casablanca  
5    Pastel purple  
10    Pest controller  
14    Simba's queen  
15    Venue for bowls or jams  
16    Inside, to start  
17    On thin ice, professionally  
20    "Golly!"  
21    Found with Os on a grid  
22    She always serves, piping hot  
23    Sea hawk  
25    Malay footballer  
26    Atlanta based channel  
27    Stitch  
28    Poet Calvino  
32    Cultured dairy  
34    What 55A and 17A want  
36    Doofenschmirtz's tax status  
37    Second-person plural pronoun  
38    What blows the roof off stadiums  
39    Sleeping on this cover story  
41    Harsher than truths  
42    In their ___  
43    Hosp. staffer  
44    Main character sign  
45    Mexican coin  
47    Cultured Dairy  
50    V = IR  
53    Home of Green Gables, for short  
54    Musician Issa  
55    Bewitching teen, actress  
58    German no  
59    Smacks  
60    Agent of antiquity  
61    60s "Gotcha"   
62    Bad dreams address  
63    Zeus's wife  

Down
1    You killed his father, prepare to die  
2    Doilies and Docs have these  
3    The only two-wheeler missing from college campuses  
4    Dentist's office conversation starter  
5    Actress Chabert  
6    Irritates  
7    Director Spike  
8    2005 political documentary  
9    Edna Mode says no  
10    Recent MIT Hack  
11    Actress Taylor Joy  
12    Getting this is only fun at 21  
13    Nemo's friend  
18    They're yoked  
19    Girlies, classily  
24    Go to a BNB for this  
25    Former first family  
27    Common in New Mexican buildings  
29    Advice for young and old  
30    French moon  
31    Withdraws (out)  
32    Small drinks  
33    Using needles for cover  
34    Plant or pig, depending on the field  
35    It's more brutal than honesty  
37    Echoes through the Alps  
40    Slipping, in judgement  
41    Payment, with an arm  
44    Hog in your mouth  
46    UF President  
47    In your bread, but hopefully not your muffin  
48    Said when sending back steak  
49    Tri- plus one  
50    Tri- plus some  
51    Listen  
52    Roman 1052   
53    Sodas  
56    You do want this in your muffin  
57    "As if!"