Comics & Activities 09/16/2024

Across

1 “___ as I say!”  

5 Religious factions  

10 Prickly seedcases  

14 Yes-___ question  

15 “Caveman” diet  

16 Apple desktop  

17 Tsp. or tbsp.  

18 “What did ___ you?”  

19 Doc who performs Pap smears  

20 Household liquidation event  

22 Accomplishment  

23 Olive in Italy  

24 Holds up  

25 Taxpayer, e.g.  

29 Web communications protocol  

31 Bilingual Muppet  

33 Less reputable 

37 Cover story for an alien  

39 Stored a backup copy on  

40 Like an incel, perhaps  

42 Transplant, as a plant  

43 Rapper Missy ___  

45 One-person performances  

46 Yoga posture  

49 Bingham of “Baywatch”  

51 “Note to ___ …”  

52 Invitation to enter  

57 Biggest city on the Big Island  

58 Chris of “Jurassic World”  

59 Letter-shaped fastener  

60 Fed. power dept.  

61 Surrounding glows  

62 The Bruins’ sch.  

63 Full ___ (commit to 100%, in slang)  

64 Weather stats… or (taking into account the location of this word in the grid) a feature of 65-across  

65 Take a tumble… or a hint to the circled clues and their location/orientation in the grid  

Down

1 Noggin  

2 Some Minecraft blocks  

3 Med school subj.  

4 Cubs slugger Sammy  

5 Sales pitch  

6 Totally wipes out  

7 Splits in two  

8 Scandalous biographies  

9 Only  

10 Big goose egg  

11 Hesitant agreement  

12 Charged toward  

13 Mary, Queen of ___  

21 What may stop you from spilling the beans?  

24 Doesn’t delete  

25 Wilma’s mate  

26 Smidgen  

27 Future D.A.’s exam  

28 Big name in modeling agencies  

30 Close to  

32 Cain’s brother  

34 “American ___”  

35 Cameroonian soccer player Samuel  

36 Goes bad  

38 “For real?”  

41 Problem after an upper body workout  

44 [Is this thing on?]  

46 Campfire remains  

47 River through Paris  

48 ___ wrench  

50 Credits as a source  

52 Petty quarrel  

53 Double ___ Oreos  

54 Machu Picchu builder  

55 Not sharp  

56 List-ending abbr.