USA TODAY CROSSWORD
BUILD-A-BEAR
ACROSS
1 Nonalcoholic fizzy
beverage
5 Plopped into a
chair
8 Earn, like money
12 “On the ___
side . . .”
13 Fibrous
14 Domain
15 Ctrl+P command 16 Some healthcare
heroes
17 Even scores
18 3.0 GPA
20 Recorded, in a
way
22 Type of whiskey in
a Manhattan
23 Extra, extra dry
24 Neither here ___
there
25 Spitting Andes
animal
26 Change for a
twenty
29 Chinese philosophic
principle
31 Advice that encourages authenticity
35 Group of actors
36 Part of a bedroom
set
37 Elite groups of
invitees
40 French for “no”
41 Gossip that you
can “spill”
42 Actress who played Dorothy on “The Golden Girls” 44 Secret agent
45 Dewrinkling tool 46 Org. with vaccine
recommendations 49 Animated creation 53 “Never gonna
happen!”
57 On top of that
58 “Please remember
...”
60 In real time
61 ___ Lauder
(beauty brand)
62 Resident of old
Peru
Answers: © Andrews McMeel
63 Atlas parts
64 Worries a lot 65 Goes out with
DOWN 1
Aerosol can’s output
2 Savory fruit
3 Hill of sand
4 Word before “plane” or “projection”
5 Vague future time 6 Like the name Sue,
for a lawyer
7 Supermodel
Beckford
8 One might be a
twin
9 Jessye Norman
solo
10 Hold onto
11 With the greatest
of ___
13 Authoritarian
government
15 Cheap beer letters 19 The “A” of UAE
21 ___ Dame (Paris
cathedral) 25 “___ luck!”
27 Gets ready to welcome a baby, say
28 What melatonin can help people do
29 “___ as old as
time . . .”
30 Drag queen
O’Hara
32 Gross smell
33 Big coffee
container
34 Wear at the
edges
35 Ride that can
be hailed 38 Group of
three 39 Pulsing lights 40 Religious
sister 43 Sincere 46 Shows great
joy or sadness 47 Lion’s lair 48 Strappy tops,
for short
49 Unflappable 50 “RRR” actress
Bhatt
51 Answer an evite
52 Polydactyl cats
have extra ones
53 Doodled
54 “I call dibs!”
55 A single time
56 Secrecy-protecting
docs
59 “She ___ and left
no crumbs!”