Championship or Bust
◆ · By KrishKross · Published 2022-06-02T07:12:12.944Z
The May puzzle, and my fifth. Enjoy and good luck!
Raja
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Deplenishes, as a pantry
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Across
- 1ADeplenishes, as a pantry
- 6ASetting for the film Spotlight
- 12AScottish Gaelic or Welsh (as languages), or, with 6A, potential attendee of a June pride parade of sorts
- 13ALike aeronautic instruments
- 15ASteffi Graf’s other half
- 16ASearch party map overlay
- 17ABank transfer initials
- 18ANintendo 64 predecessor
- 19AWrap up
- 21AGossip, in slang
- 22ASigns
- 24AWho gets in the way of what Alicia Keys feels for you?
- 25AMorbius lead
- 26AUtter
- 28AFeed to follow
- 29ABoat propellers
- 30ACold summer treat
- 32APerhaps the greatest 39D ever, or a delicious spicy dish
- 34AHindi cousin spoken in Pakistan
- 35AHe lost to Dubya
- 36AActor Channing who played Mike, or one trying to beat the Dubs
- 38APronoun notoriously used by Margaret Thatcher (singular, elected) to announce her status as new grandmother
- 41AChurn, as a stomach or sea
- 42AEconomist and Nobel Prize winner Amartya
- 43ADepends (on)
- 45A8-time Olympic gold medalist Ray who overcame polio to win three jumping events
- 46ACoach’s first choice
- 48AAyatollah’s mouthpiece, and anagram of his country
- 49AAnimator’s starch-like overlay (before computers took over)
- 50ALike the color of a ceremonial railroad spike
- 52ADOW or SPY metric
- 53AWhat comes before the carte?
- 54A“Without,” when talking fonts
- 55AMy dear, in Medina
- 57AImmersed in thought
- 59ASlobbers (over)
- 60AConsidered
- 61AWhat a bouquet delivered to a hospital says?
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- 1DUniversity governors
- 2DOne who may have recently voted for Santa Claus
- 3DOft-misapostrophisized possessive pronoun
- 4DX-rays for a slipped one might be stored on one
- 5DDiscontinued Toyota sub-brand
- 6DDiscount viscounts?
- 7DSheep descriptor
- 8DToy Story antagonist
- 9DHomophone for the number of letters in this word, a crossword no-no (I’m a rebel)
- 10DLike a team that just keeps winning
- 11D“Better luck next time!”
- 12DGenus containing man’s best friend
- 14DColloquially, randomness (but not in physics…don’t @ me)
- 16D____ step (military march)
- 20DAncient Roman horn, or where the uterus meets a Fallopian tube
- 23DWith determination
- 25DGerman figure similar to Greek siren
- 27DBeige color and shameless crossword fill
- 31DWhite labeling initials (like Duracell vis a vis Kirkland Signature batteries)
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(adjective) - 33DMountain range separating Asia and Europe
- 35DGamete maker
- 36DDried (off)
- 37DFlight path
- 38DMeta TikTok clone
- 39DWith 50A and 26A, potential rainer on the 6A/12A parade? (Splash!)
- 40DBestow a title upon
- 41DBackward-looking TV foreshadowing device
- 42DLike many Woodstock attendees
- 44DSouth Asian wedding clothes
- 46DMezcal plant
- 47DLegendary ghazal singer Hassan (see 34A); or MSNBC commentator and viral tweeter Hasan
- 51DTattletale
- 54DComputer person?
- 56DFeathery neckwear
- 58DLower end iPhone model