AI SPLOP
By Brendan Emmett Quigley
Across
1 Without question
6 Split personality?
11 See 24-Across
14 Doctor
15 Bit of punch
16 Swallowed
17 Make ice cream?
19 Call it a career
20 Take things in
21 Out in the open
22 Bars on a staff
24 With 11-Across, mic check phrase
25 [mind blown]
26 Parisien pixies?
32 Communication interceptors
34 Now just hold everything!
35 Mid-afternoon break
36 Ship that carried the Golden Fleece
37 Get the car ready for a trip
38 Italian home of the Arena Garibaldi stadium
39 Crossword solver, apparently
40 Centipede’s head?
41 Small boats
42 Part of a pogo stick no longer working?
45 Cooking staple acronym
46 “Is it ___ wonder?”
47 Sparkle with morning moisture
49 Hard stuff
52 Guardian, Angel overseer
55 Genre for Piebald or Karate (Boston pride!)
56 Peninsula that’s not the easiest place to live?
59 Liberty Mutual bird mascot
60 Pungent
61 Say out loud
62 White stuff on bacon
63 Farm team supports
64 More chill
Down
1 Group of friends you wouldn’t dare ghost, for short
2 Way back when, in stories
3 Available
4 Archaeologist’s estimate
5 Gerrymanders
6 Java application
7 Sound from a crowd
8 Leave off
9 Patriots Day mo.
10 Butterfly-shaped gland located in the neck
11 1980 movie set in the Overlook Hotel
12 “Gimme! Now!”
13 “Never tell me the ___” (Han Solo)
18 Totally balanced
23 Eustachian tube location
24 Loaded ___ (Nabisco cookie)
25 Distort
26 Solved, as a puzzle
27 Refuse
28 Lily family plant
29 “On Call: A Doctor’s Journey in Public Service” memoirist
30 Where the Land of Nod is vis-Ã -vis Eden
31 Hydra-facial establishments
32 Puts into words
33 Actor’s thing
37 “Move! Now!”
38 Very small
40 Time you might go sledding
41 Cleaner with an evergreen scent
43 “___ got your nose!”
44 Hard to motivate
47 Burrito filling
48 Mackey of “Sex Education”
49 Cry from 50-Down
50 Friend of Nermal
51 Company that made America’s first exported car
52 OS that uses shell commands
53 Horse hair
54 Place to go fishing
57 Prefix with sphere and friendly
58 Letters on a hoppy beer
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