USA TODAY CROSSWORD
SKY-HIGH (FREESTYLE) ACROSS
1 More than enough 6 Fleshy part of the
ear
10 Australian boots
14 Eco-friendly device
on a roof
16 Hang out in the
tub for a while
17 Set of celestial objects gravitationally bound to one another
18 Name that’s an anagram of “lama”
19 R&B singer James 20 Name that’s 52-Down backward
21 Sunny-___-up eggs 22 Foot digit
23 Business org.
24 Tablecloths and
such
26 Orca’s appendage 27 “I’ll handle that!” 29 Zero
30 Blender noise
32 Bean in bissara
33 “A long, long time ___ / I can still remember . . .”
34 “You must have it
wrong”
38 MLK’s title
39 “This is bad!”
40 Rapper with a cold-sounding name
41 Rock such as
sphalerite
42 Folktales, e.g.
43 Make an inquiry 44 Time for a fresh
start
46 Toad’s bump
48 “Welcome”
surface
51 Have on
52 Zero
53 In your birthday
suit
54 Soccer great Mia 55 “I’m cool with
that!” © Andrews McMeel
57 “Ah, that makes
sense”
58 “Hey, you’re back!” 59 Olives’ seeds
60 Ye ___ Shoppe
61 Sheds feathers
DOWN
1 Desirable quality
2 “Dirigo,” for Maine 3 Flat dish for food
4 “Love by Grace”
singer Fabian
5 Hospital areas
(Abbr.)
6 Light show light
7 Really happy
8 “It’s ___ a minute!” 9 Tree with “branches like breath” in a Grace Marie Grafton poem
10 Olympic runner
Bolt
11 Time of prosperity 12 Hangout where Catan or charades might be played
13 Reggae precursor 15 Orange marker in
football
21 Musician such as
Reenat Fauzia
23 Word before
“reasoning” or “saw” 24 “___, Laugh, Love” 25 Opening for a coin 26 ___ as a fiddle
28 Snatch
30 Question asked
after digressing 31 “Do I know
you?” 34 “___: Legacy”
(sci-fi film) 35 “Hello, Captain Hook!” 36 Neither’s
partner 37 “Gross!” 43 “Am not!”
retort 45 Kelly Holmes and Angela Lansbury, e.g.
47 Joint below
the shinbone
48 Wall painting
2/16
49 Confess
50 Many “Daria” characters, age-wise
52 Christmas carol
word
53 Nonstarter
54 Fashionable . . . or
a body part
55 “Is this someone I know?”
Relatives, for short