Across 1. Tackiness, slangily 7. WoW category 10. Christmassistant 13. BB user 14. Poked holes in 16. Victim 17. It can store another of its type as well as files 18. Tricky curve 19. Play a round, do lunch, or take ___ 21. Fort Meade mathematicians’ fun 25. NMSQT 27. Vent 28. Five of a kind 29. Ancient Taoist 31. United Airlines subfleet 33. Solution for x if exp(x) = m 34. Whispering chamber 38. New feature in Windows Vista (abbr.) 39. Widow of Lennon 40. “Here, ___” (said by a frustrated person) 41. A quarter ___ (1:45) 44. 6 letters 46. Malum ___: an act, such as murder, that is wrong in any human society 47. Outdoor math fun, often involving compass or GPS 50. What wet ink may do 51. Stoolie 54. Raw gemstones or cookie buddies? 57. Last (Sp.) 59. Weekly show featuring math in

crimesolving 60. It fell in 1975 61. Medium-length dashes 62. Access control method (abbr.) 63. Talks Down 1. Worst-___ analysis 2. Google results 3. Cupid 4. It may be stoked or bruised 5. Meas. that makes medicine go down 6. Us, according to Pogo 7. Broke a trinomial into two binomials, say 8. Calc. again 9. Opposed to gun control 10. DCA posting 11. Brandon or Bruce 12. HST’s predecessor 15. Pond scum 17. Gradegrubbers 20. MPG publishers 21. Difficult Tour de France climb (abbr.) 22. Tug operators 23. ___ de Balzac 24. Scrumptious 25. Ashen appearance 26. 5, 6, 7 29. Slow marking 30. That (Sp.) 32. 1440 minutes 35. Said of another round I buy 36. Beef cut 37. Ladder feature 42. What babies might say 43. How music is stored nowadays 45. Gold (Sp.) 48. Rends 49. What a baby might say 51. Latvian capital 52. Frenetically 53. Lots 54. exp(0) 55. Broadway tenure 56. 911 responders’ specialty 58. Ligature