USA TODAY CROSSWORD
DUST-UP ACROSS
1 Pushing the
envelope
5 Situp muscles
8 Place to get
microdermabrasion 11 Tire grooves
13 Split ___ soup
14 “Mangia!”
15 Condition in a
contract
16 Chum
17 Vaccination
location, usually
18 Tax evader’s worry 19 Roadblocks
22 Fishing rod
attachment
23 Wildebeest
24 Possible response to “Who wants cake?”
25 Deface
27 Old West cowboy
Love
29 Immense
33 Initial tryouts
37 Airline named for a region on the Mississippi river
38 GPA-inflating class 39 The S in “iOS”
(Abbr.)
40 “___ in the court!” 41 Matches audio
and video
42 Prepare for some
tent sleeping
44 “Toodles!”
45 Maidenform
garment
46 So-so
47 Salmon eggs
49 Gym unit
51 Regarding
55 Prepared to punch 59 Armadillo’s
defense
60 Historic stretch
61 Greenskeeper’s
roll
62 Dishonest trick used to get someone’s money 64 Important skill for
a biathlete
65 Intense anger Answers: © Andrews McMeel
66 Mean-spirited
critics
67 Reasons for end zone celebrations (Abbr.)
68 Cuttlefish’s habitat 69 Suffix for
“Oktober”
DOWN 1
2
Wear down
Like a cheerful and reckless attitude
3 Way of walking
4 There are 1,760 in
a mile (Abbr.)
5 iPhone downloads 6 “Scram!”
7 Caprese or larb
8 Device for securing envelopes with wax
9 Peel, like an apple 10 Cash dispensers
11 Loyal
12 Before you know it 15 Golf course
standard
20 Photobomber’s
V-sign gesture 21 Nightclub
admission fees
23 “Back away from
the kibble!”
26 “___, poor Yorick!” 28 Helper (Abbr.)
30 “The West Wing”
actor Alan
31 Part of some
wineglasses 32 Infield covering 33 MMPI or GRE 34 “___ and the
Last Dragon” 35 “This ___ my
first rodeo” 36 Cold War
country 37 “Sick!” 43 Baseball official 45 Label on one of two homeimprovement photos 48 Desert
watering hole 50 Engrave 52 Like some modern appliances and watches 53 Male turkeys
54 Valuable rock
55 Paleo diet protein 56 Like Death Valley 57 Beavers build
them
58 A lightbulb emoji might represent one
59 Pot starter
63 Klutzy sort