•
DesolateAcross
1
Desolate
6
Kept in the loop, on the low
10
Skinny
14
Turn-of-the-century explorer Akeley who like, had some cool accomplishments, but as I found out while researching for this clue also got divorced due to being obsessed with a pet monkey? so that's what the clue has to be about
15
Morlock's meal
16
Bit of Spanish?
17
"Power" channel
18
"Uh huh..."
19
Glass and Gershwin, e.g.
20
Ducks??
22
Magic rings?
24
Signed off on
26
Playing to the cheap seats
27
Already-outdated rhyme for "Switzerland, Austria" in a 1993 Animaniacs song
31
Brass band festival in Somerville that is always my favorite day of the year (and de facto birthday party)
32
Fearfully symmetric subject of a William Blake poem
33
Lossless image compression format better for most digitally-generated images (whereas JPEG is better for photographs! now you know!!)
35
Less chill
38
Eyes
40
Company that operates both WWE and UFC
41
Item of papal regalia that hasn't been worn since 1963
43
Science fiction pioneer Gernsback
44
"Oh no... we've met, haven't we?"
48
Tump or crug
49
"Wow wow wow!"
50
Notre-Dame de Paris, e.g.?
52
Full info
56
Booty
57
Pants, mainly when dropped
59
2022 film partly inspired by one of the directors' ADHD diagnosis
60
"Thunderbolts*" actress whose name sounds like a zap from a ray gun
61
Burden
62
Colt .45, after 1964??
63
Inflammation that's annoying for eyelids but soothing for crossword grids
64
Org. that brought back "The Worm" in 2020
65
Presumed two, for Santa
Down
1
According to a viral tweet, "literally looney tunes sex--Tying each other up and hitting each other with sticks etc. Come on"
2
"___ ___ Smile Be Your Umbrella"
3
Airline based in Ben Gurion Airport
4
Four (I think?) for the International Space Station
5
Language in the process of switching from Cyrillic to Latin script
6
Kinky ways to get drunk???
7
Way to watch a magic trick
8
A massive wooden one hangs in the Massachusetts State House
9
I'm kind of obsessed with how this is one of the rare words that just doesn't have a standard spelling in English; this is the version you'll usually see with golf or jockey, but not with drive or floppy
10
Mathematician now most famous for using gender-neutral neopronouns in his work
11
Text that might be embarrassing if the public sees it??
12
"No one asked for your help!"
13
Like a stone that isn't rolling, presumably
21
Influential Italian-American restaurateur
23
United States airport with the most destinations
25
Li'l Abner's village (in an unspecified state)
27
You might ask them if this is real
28
Crashing
29
"I wonder if that's where that word came from. I'm gonna go look up its ___. [...] Yeah, I looked it up. It turns out ___ is the study of insects." - Dr. Doofenshmirtz
30
"Owl House" character originally known as "Subject Number 5"
34
Classic Pontiacs
36
Bold alternatives
37
1st of Shawwal or 10th of Dhu al-Hijjah
39
Royal title that can also be a name (peaking in 2018 as the 550th most-common given name in America)
42
Rowdy
45
Unbothered
46
According to Ken Jennings, this "term for a long-handled gardening tool can also mean an immoral pleasure seeker" (which I think he should have gotten credit for!)
47
"I'll keep playing, Howie!"
48
Bullwhip, Giant, Kombu, etc.
51
Namesake for a certain tuxedo-adjacent jacket
53
Grub
54
Sharp
55
Mystery Shack handyman
58
Molecule made of mixed-up GUAC
Themeless
