USA TODAY CROSSWORD

BRING THE HEAT

ACROSS 1 Person you might

dish to, for short 4 “___ I Wanna Do” (Sheryl Crow song) 7 Tuscany’s country 12 Stags and does 13 Legal claim on a

property

15 Aladdin’s wish-granting friend 16 “Puss in Boots”

baddie 17 “omg hilarious!” 18 Touches down 19 Places to buy first

editions of novels 22 “As I was saying . . .” 23 iPhone platform,

for short 24 U.S. tax-collection

agency 25 Antacid brand 27 Massage 30 Cixin Liu’s genre 33 Sudden desire 34 Big primate 35 Semi-spicy taco

sauce 38 Secrecy contract

(Abbr.) 39 Game with +4

cards 40 Caked in wet dirt 41 Sign in to

Instagram 43 Ladies 45 Scot’s “no” 46 Envy or sloth, for

example 47 Easy as ___ 49 Alternatively 53 “Oh, hi!” 57 Airline based in

Atlanta

58 Villain’s hideout

59 Pam’s successor

on “The Office”

60 Identified

61 Largest joint in the 14

human body © Andrews McMeel

62 Nutritionist’s plan 63 One end of a

battery

64 Throw in

65 Not as much

DOWN 1

2

Started

Boat to an island, often

3 Perk at a coffee

shop or airport

4 Blends of metals

5 Celeb’s ride to the

Oscars, typically

6 Premature song

release

7 Homes made of

snow bricks

8 Drops that are

shed

9 Green Gables girl 10 Pickle jar tops

11 “Okay, let’s do it” 12 Explorer of kids’ TV

Negative responses 20 Element used as a radiocontrast agent

21 Swim meet

statistics

25 Swap

26 ___ Christmas

sweater

27 Used a doorbell 28 Hairstyle that might require a scrunchie

29 Lima or kidney,

e.g.

30 Self-satisfied

31 Wrestler and

actor John

32 Hero

33 Org. that grades

eggs

36 Snack

37 Red carpet VIPs 42 Hush-hush, for

short

44 Like some popcorn and winter roads

46 Slept noisily 48 Sharp part of a

knife

49 Fibber’s

confession

50 Spooky

51 Spring star sign 52 Fender bender

results, usually

53 Ease off of breast

milk, say

54 Red Muppet with

a high voice

55 Antlered animal 56 “The Matrix Resurrections” director Wachowski

57 Double-stranded

genetic material