ACROSS

1 The first A in AAPI

5 ____ soup, traditional Japanese dish

9 ____ John Silver

10 Green pasta sauce made with nuts, basil, and cheese

11 A tree heavily loaded, or _____, with fruit

13 Difficult class

14 Comparable with

15 No ___, ands, or buts

16 Commercials: abbr.

17 ___ on the shelf

18 Santa ___, California

19 Sick

21 Second most consumed beverage in the world

22 ______ Abe

24 “__ This Love?” : 1978 Bob Marley song

26 Opposite of day

27 Beans on _____

29 ‘What’s My ____” : 2010 Rihanna song

30 ____ out (decides not to)

31 Red-green _____ blind

DOWN

1 God in the Quran

2 Drench

3 The Hoosier state

4 Meeting outline

5 ___ day (abbreviated May holiday)

6 __ ya ready? (Kay Flock song)

7 Employees

8 Exclamation made after a mistake

20 Web-footed aquatic mammal

23 Jerk

15 Against the law

17 Pacific Ocean weather pattern which translates from Spanish to “the boy” 

19 Charged atom

25 Donkey

28 Don’t __ me

18 Famous fable writer

21 Communist leader of Yugoslavia

This crossword also appears in our May/June 2023 print edition.