The Blue Room Crossword
("The Vortex," May 2018)- By S. John Ross

This is the May 2018 Crossword; enjoy! There are handy Rich Text and PDF versions for easier printing, or you can solve it in your desktop browser with the Java version. Once you're sure you've cracked it, you can click here to check your results against the solution!

[The May 2018 Puzzle]

ACROSS

1. In RPGs, things like experience points and levels are the most rudimentary of these. (7)
7. The kind of quotes made with digits. (3)
10. He directed the only Kelvin movie I kind of liked in that Trekkish way, though he's better known for speed and fury. (3)
11. In a word, Thomas felt the remoulade was this, a bit. (4)
12. Ten was the first to open the TARDIS with one. (4)
14. They're the everyman way to cross Storm River. (5)
16. "One Rinden sailor told me: once you have tried Satyr, you are never again happy with an ordinary _____." (4)
18. The Bristly Mourner makes it when it kills. (4)
20. What comes after 35 Across ... if there IS an after. (6)
22. "A _____ I've not felt since ..." (8)
24. Blessed _____. (2)
25. In Poker, they're worth less than anything. (4)
27. "... like _____ in rain." (5)
28. That dog swallowed a microscopic one, from space. (5)
29. In a castle, there's a much simpler word for the balistraria. (4)
30. A GURPS 3rd Edition clue for old times' sake: it's half of how a party calculated their Thirty-One Acrosses. (2)
31. They used DX for the other half of these. Basically. (6)
33. 2000 _____ pirated a font of mine for a while, but since I'm not British it took me a while to notice. (2)
34. The Krillitanes couldn't handle the stuff anymore. Do try the chips. (3)
35. Neck and neck. (4)
36. Falion needs a filled Black Soul Gem to do this to a vampire. (4)
37. Not quite the bottom, it's where Troubleshooters start. (3)
38. I guess GURPS clues still come easy: Toughness gave you more. (2)
40. They go well with likes. (6)
42. Is you _____, or is you ain't. (2)
43. "All the great orators _____ before commencing their speeches. It is the way of things." (4)
45. If you're not sure of the answer, you could try to Google it, or just do this. (5)
46. There were 240 to the pound. (5)
47. In the context of 25 Across, they're aces. (4)
48. The only kind of dollar I accept for font licenses, but hardly the only kind of dollar. (2)
50. As American heroes go, William Katt was this. (8)
53. As American hammers go, David Rasche was this. (6)
55. This follows going twice. (4)
56. If a miner finds some, that's usually a fail, but if a reporter or detective finds some, that's often a win. (4)
58. Sometimes it comes in mink, sometimes it just hangs around the clerics. (5)
59. What a Uresian dwarf calls any old dungeon. (4)
61. "You _____ a decent fellow. I hate to kill you." (4)
63. Richard Pryor played one when I was young. (3)
64. The classiest 'toons spit in one, or something about electric welding, if we're doing it the easy way. (3)
65. The Bishop became one to Slippery Jim. (7)

DOWN

1. It might lead from one Palladium world to another. (4)
2. In the Black Panther soundtrack, Lamar hates people who feel this way. (8)
3. The fulcrum of many an online address. (2)
4. Everybody likes the Michigan one. (3)
5. Very naughty Australians might claim there are bears that do this on you. (4)
6. The SALTs of the 60s and 70s lapsed in the 80s, but led to the _____ of the 90s. (6)
7. Queer _____ Folk. (2)
8. What Gorf cries out for us to do with the coin. (6)
9. There Will Come Soft _____ is a Teasdale poem, and a Bradbury short. (5)
10. He faced the Leather Goddesses in thrilling 3-D. (4)
13. They're the Service Group who grows your algae and builds your toolbox. (3)
14. Test a lamp for genie infestation. (3)
15. Hail Eris! Because at Eris, my friend Joey _____ his hands together. (5)
17. The most famous clone from MLY sector. (5)
19. The Feast of Painted _____ begins the process of choosing a new High Overseer. (7)
21. A plural, of deer, some female deer. (4)
23. Right _____ Fred. And that's a Wilf reference for my Doctor Who fandom; it's not about the band, but I'm sure they're fine too. (4)
26. See, it's doing a grid with two-letter clues that sticks me with extra GURPS things. This one determines your swing and thrust. (2)
28. Do this thing to me, Seymour. (4)
30. Back in the day, Luke and Danny were heroes for this. (4)
31. In the MCU, these were Ultron's thematic, musical connection to Pinocchio. (7)
32. Speaking of MCU baddies: what Ronan the Accuser used to make in that TV show, when he wasn't raising the dead. Bake-off, bro. (4)
34. The Tennyson poem said theirs, but in citations, theirs often becomes this, to fit the context. A dash of 42 across is pretty common, too. (4)
36. Just to remind that you could be fined, "Be Kind, Rewind" sometimes appeared on the video kind. (8)
38. Do, or this, if Yoda used more contractions. (4)
39. Dry Bones did it in a tank, for example. (5)
40. Maybe not in real life (depending), but Alpha Orionis and 40 Eridani A are, according to Prefect and Spock. (4)
41. He had two, but Thetis held him by one. (5)
43. On more than one occasion, Gygax presumed the gentility of each. (6)
44. In California you can _____ arrest by interfering with an EMT. (6)
45. Empty triangles are ill-advised, in this. (2)
46. The smallest of the Heltish cities, it sits at the northernmost end of Lake Rund. (5)
48. If an infant of Family Anatidae seems to be _____, we may later learn that it's from somewhere in Subfamily Anserinae, Genus Cygnus, contrary to prior assumptions. (4)
49. Holy _____. (3)
51. He took us to another dimension, not only of sight and sound but of mind. (3)
52. Michael and Michael shared this other name, once they were married. (4)
54. I 49 Down a 37 Across one, and I want it painted black. (4)
57. The Nutri-Matic could provide a liquid almost, but not quite, entirely unlike it. (3)
60. An RPG protagonist. (2)
62. All you need to turn most any item into a McDonald's item. (2)

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