March Issue 2022 — Adulting

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Across
  1. 4. Adult jitter juice
  2. 6. Please cancel them
  3. 7. Record of professional experience
  4. 9. You start feeling it in your 30s
  5. 11. Home owner’s bane
  6. 12. Socializing
  7. 15. Feeling forever alone
  8. 16. 50th birthday
  9. 18. You dread them every holiday season
  10. 21. Arguing pettily
  11. 22. Three-digit number that rules your life
  12. 24. An essential “adulting” skill
  13. 25. Money management
  14. 27. Being an adult means making the tough one
  15. 28. Helps save for 56 down
  16. 29. Precursor to 32 across
  17. 31. Take a __ day
  18. 32. Educational move for the adult who doesn’t know what to do with their life
  19. 33. Offers a sweet reprieve for caretakers
  20. 36. Are you even a millennial if you aren’t in __?
  21. 37. “With great power, comes great __.”
  22. 40. Children substitute
  23. 42. Elusive fountain’s promise
  24. 45. They pile up fast
  25. 46. Keep up with them
  26. 48. Constitutional right and responsibility
  27. 51. Car dealership option
  28. 52. Bad habit
  29. 53. Granny’s favorite game
  30. 54. Perhaps the most “adulting” duties of all
  31. 55. Expensive wrinkle remover
  32. 56. Due on the 1st
  33. 57. Common New Year’s Resolution for adults
  34. 60. Monthly limit
  35. 62. Furbabies
  36. 63. __ mater
  37. 64. Impossible to do when people are watching
Down
  1. 1. Wash them at least every two weeks
  2. 2. Your first game system, probably
  3. 3. Culture of sitting in a Zoom meeting while wearing dirty sweatpants: abbr.
  4. 5. Once every 3,000 miles
  5. 8. First thing in the morning
  6. 10. Indoor sport for old-timers
  7. 13. Exploitive safety net
  8. 14. You find yourself falling asleep while watching this sport (congrats, you’re now your father)
  9. 17. Opening line of an elder’s tale
  10. 19. The ’90s to Gen Z
  11. 20. Not-your-grandfather’s cash
  12. 23. First month’s rent
  13. 26. Career chase
  14. 30. Busy month for the IRS
  15. 31. Get at least 8 hours
  16. 34. IOU
  17. 35. “Nothing is certain except death and __”
  18. 38. Make a pass online
  19. 39. “Air one’s dirty __”
  20. 41. All grown up
  21. 43. A secret cleaning agent for hardwood floors
  22. 44. Impossible to fold
  23. 47. Do it once a week and you’ll never argue about what’s for dinner again
  24. 48. 9-to-5 escape
  25. 49. Fad diet
  26. 50. Another word for “adulting”
  27. 56. Reason for a 401(k)
  28. 58. Buy now, pay later
  29. 59. Attire for your sister-in-law’s cousin’s wedding you’re begrudgingly attending
  30. 61. You’ll be a member before you know it: abbr.