Across

1 The “it girl” of UMD’s construction era

11 Geeky UMD ensemble that tour guides love to bring up

14 Fastener for Birkenstocks

15The “O” in BYOB

16 Boxing Hall of Famer and conscientious objector

17Product in a fuckboy’s hair

18 Primary education course for reading and writing (abbr.)

19Deadly places to study

21Ancestor of golden retrievers

27Moved carefully (into)

28_____ la Paix

29 UMD’s semesterly sketch-comedy show

30 Like a philosophy major who lacks meaning

34 Something engineering majors rarely see

37 Artist returning for NextNow ’24, but this time for straight people

40Have the freshman flu

41 Portion of the population that has nearly twice as much money as the rest

42Vinyls (abbr.)

44As thin as _____

45Step

48Historic Manhattan Ballroom

52 People who can still be found in Starfield’s space for some reason

55 Poet responsible for The Baltimore Ravens’ namesake

56Knives Out star ____ de Armas

57 Something you can’t do at this school, especially in Fall

63Time off, to ROTC kids

64 “Balalaika” star with her own variety show

65“What are you, a ____?”

66 School mascot that got piledrived by Testudo

Down

1Food Network host ____ Deen

2Flip one’s lid?

3Food label fig.

4Popular cooking spray

5 Type of machine learning algorithm (abbr.)

6 Interplanetary exploration org. representing many countries across the pond

7Inc. alternative

8 Country formerly known as Persia

9 Lioness who may have caused an awakening for some Unifursity Furries members

10Allergy treatment device

11“We Got the Beat” band

12Greta Thunberg or Avicii

13 How some frat bros might spend their free time

14 Merganser with black and white coloring

20 Passive aggressive synonym for friend

22 Bad spelling of a really good first name

23Obedient

24One of Mars’s moons

25Takes too much of, for short

26Approach

29Fibber and Molly of old radio

30Pro-gun org.

31The Third, in a name

32 Something to drink to impress your chem TA, symbolically

33CS prodigy

34UMD org. that arranges comedy shows and movies

35Object holding grandma’s ashes

36 Newspaper this crossword is inspired by (abbr.)

38Hockey Player Willie ____

391450, to a classics major

42 One who might get owned by Ben Shapiro

43 School _____: Set a fire in your classroom to get out of an exam

45 UMD Merch you wait hours for

461000 kilograms, to a Brit

47 What Obama does to Obamain that one meme

49Deaf as ____

50Without a charge

51Oppose

53 River separating China and North Korea

54Chocolate toffee bar

58Finale

59Two pi

60The Beatles’ “____ Mine”

61 Something freshmen definitely need to use to navigate campus

62DC to Ocean City dir.

Image Credits: Eric Stearns