ACROSS
1. “Are you certain” in textspeak
6. Singer Brickell or actress Falco
10. Viral internet image or catchphrase
14. Tear into narrow strips
15. Peterson who was murdered in California when she was eight months pregnant
16. Pitcher with a wide mouth
17. Cloudburst in France
18. Nicole Kidman scary movie about a mysterious house (2001)
20. “_Destination” film where death keeps coming and will make you never drive behind a logging truck ever again
21. Fill with a feeling (var. spelling)
22. ___ nitrate
23. Olive genus
24. Make merry
29. Courtroom deal-making between prosecutor and defendant
32. Abbr. on a map near the middle of town
33. Ancient Spartan cipher rod (also “Dune: Part Three” antagonist played by Robert Pattinson)
34. Family of languages spoken across much of sub-Saharan Africa
37. Uses a stun gun on
38. Performer without accompaniment
40. Pose a question
41. Descendant of the islands’ original Polynesian settlers (the subject of Jason Momoa’s “Chief of War”)
46. Cheri from Saturday Night Live
47. Cupid’s Greek counterpart
48. Removable car roof panel
50. Baseball pitcher Skubal (also Iraqi diplomat _ Aziz)
52. Former New York Philharmonic conductor Kurt
53. First American woman in space
57. Prefix for poly (meaning “few”)
58. R & B singer India.___
59. Tech news and reviews website
60. “The _ Stuff” 1983 film based on Tom Wolfe’s 1979 book
61. “While You ___ Sleeping”
62. Prefix relating to farming
63. Saint in Spanish (also a legendary Mexican luchador/wrestler who wore a silver mask)
DOWN
1. Patriotic nickname for the country, informally
2. Creole seafood in a po’boy
3. Uranium -based radical, or an anagram of lunary
4. Entertain with stories
5. “_weiss” — an alpine flower and song in “The Sound of Music”
6. The loom, in Spain
7. Notorious Milwaukee serial killer Jeffrey
8. Cold packs for sprains
9. Vowel sequence that comes after A
10. “It’s not great, but not terrible either”
11. Mother sheep
12. The sea, in Paris
13. Med. drama sites (like The Pitt)
19. Japanese glaze (try it on chicken or beef in a bento box from Mei Li)
23. Slow to understand
25. Walking, talking trees of Middle-earth
26. Roads, to the Romans
27. Neurological trauma response certification, briefly (anagram of lens)
28. T-shirt size: Abbr.
30. “Paranormal_” - the scary movie that started a found-footage franchise in 2007
31. Serves in the role of
34. Vessel on the water
35. Old, in Germany (anagram of late)
36. Dark, gritty film genre
38. ___-Caps (movie theater candy)
39. 2002 horror film featuring a cursed videotape
40. From “The Millionaire Fastlane” by M.J. DeMarco - “I__ the epiphany that I was the driver of my life and my problems were the consequences of my choices.”
42. A jockey is one
43. Rome’s homeland, to locals
44. Symbol in an email address
45. Zero, in British usage
49. Prefix with type
51. Medieval chest
52. Roman God of Death
53. 2004 horror film featuring the Jigsaw Killer
54. “Chances ___”
55. Irish sea god
56. “Brokeback Mountain” director
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