ACROSS
1 Night before
4 Style of dance with shoes
8 Tight hold on one’s wrist
11 Main course
12 4-down, abbr.
13 Wager
15 Word at the end of an old movie
17 Chicago bank?
21 Tolkien creature
22 High-profile
23 Shine brightly
25 Moscow building
DOWN
1 Biblical garden
2 Medieval themed fair, for short
3 Take in sustenance
4 Gender-neutral pronoun
5 Grow older
6 US territory, abbr.
7 Internet address
9 Go viral, say
10 Musicians Vanilla or Spice
14 One might do it before falling
15 Evergreen tree, often
16 Company suffix
17 Rihanna and Drake hit
18 Raise one’s voice
19 ___ The Terrible
20 Sn, in chemistry
23 Sports higher-up, abbr.
24 Letters missing in A__OU
This crossword also appears in our December 2023 print edition.
