USA TODAY CROSSWORD
NOODLE AROUND ACROSS
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Niblings’ favorite babysitters, maybe
6 Very fashionable 10 ___/her pronouns 13 Seat at the bar
14 Molars and canines 15 Wordless acknowledgment Coin-operated amusement center
18 Wrist’s place
19 Greek god of love 20 Clarinet insert
21 Channel with NHL
highlights
23 Pecan or pistachio 24 “The Starry Night”
backdrop
25 Boo-boos under
Band-Aids
28 Tractor trailers
30 Water under ___
bridge
31 Stanley competitor 32 Center of our solar
system
33 Door-to-door
cosmetics company 34 Like a caboose
35 Team that won the
Rose Bowl in 2023 38 “The Parent ___”
41 Change for a $5 bill 42 Eeyore, for
example
44 Hardly cooked
45 Parking area
46 Sculptures of heads 48 Frozen cube
container
50 Like a rainy day
51 Gamer’s setup
53 “Break glass in ___
of emergency”
54 Activist and tennis
legend Arthur
56 Fabulous party
57 The “F” of 57-Down 58 World Series precursor Second-person pronoun
62 Broad tie
Answers:
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61 63 Department-wide
notifications
64 Suffix in a gerund 65 Throw with force 66 “___, hi, I’m the
problem, ___”
DOWN
1 “Quaking” tree
2 Womb
3 “Don’t change a
thing!”
4 Lots and lots
5 Sneaky
6 Gospel singer Winans Photos brought to auditions
“___ be my pleasure”
9 Activity with
pom-poms
10 Green stir-fry veggie 11 Charlotte NBA squad
Genre for a DJ mix “Platitudes” author Ellis
They’re opened for Kol Nidrei
7
8 12 14
17 22 “Please stop
talking”
24 The “S” of
SOHCAHTOA
26 Wrestler and actor
John
27 Pull up a chair
29 Dr. Bunsen Honeydew and Beaker, e.g.
30 Device connected
to a cable box
33 Pain in the neck
36 City with Mardi Gras Parade Krewes, for short
37 Pulled tight
38 Swim-bike-run
race, for short 39 “Trash panda” 40 Floor decor 43 Goes live on
Twitch, say
46 “Where have you ___ all my life?!”
47 “Abbott Elementary” or “Schitt’s Creek” 49 Settle up
50 “___ in the world?!” 52 Honking birds
55 Bratty kid
56 Ridge on a guitar neck “Heads up” in a text
59 Language suffix 60 “Pls stop talking”
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Monday’s Answer