Across
- 5. Investigation of my own upper management (the brain)
- 8. Something or someone mysterious that you can't work out
- 10. 18-year-old global soccer phenom playing for Barcelona right now
- 11. 3D CAD engineering software solution I sell at my job (used especially to design planes)
- 16. Sonoran desert dweller whose arms always reach up to the sky
- 17. Author of bestselling novel Normal People, also adapted into a TV show on Hulu
- 19. Carrier entrusted to put this letter in your hands
- 20. Plant that gives the high desert its distinct sweet rain aroma
Down
- 1. A cheap option for a place to stay abroad
- 2. Navajo "____talkers" who sent indecipherable messages in WW2
- 3. Type of running watch that bullies you (MOVE! 4 DAYS RECOVERY! NEGATIVE VO2 MAX!)
- 4. Main characters of the Three Little Pigs storybook, but make it desert
- 6. Type of pear ripe for picking in a Tucson summer
- 7. Material to paint on (and my favorite gelato flavor at An's Laundromat)
- 9. Ultramarathon race I crewed for this past July
- 12. The difference between poetry and plain writing
- 13. People who abide by the same philosophy of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius
- 14. Same word, two trails to run: Sabino ______, or the famous USD ______
- 15. To run into something with destructive force
- 18. My favorite kind of side, as in ___side
- 21. Email address that gives you all access to NYT games
