USA TODAY CROSSWORD
FAMILY FIRST
ACROSS
1 Shortened suffix
for “trans”
5 ___ with (manage) 9 Curved structure 13 Abdul-jabbar’s
alma mater
14 Word before
“letter” or “mail”
15 Hay unit
16 Refined baking
ingredient
19 Formative
20 10-year-olds, for
example
21 Wheel coverings 23 Be unwell
24 Dish that may be served alongside tortilla espanola 29 No longer fresh
31 Corn husk
creation
32 Cheer after a
nutmeg
33 Meat that’s neither halal nor kosher
34 ___ through
(search)
36 Graceful water
bird
37 Bug in a
supercolony
38 Immigration policy introduced in 2012, for short 39 Exhausted
40 Its chimney is watched for papal news
44 Cakes da Killa
genre
45 Dog-___ pages
46 Soft wool type
49 Prizes
53 Started to
perspire
56 Helper
57 Acrylics, for
example
58 Against
59 Goes out with
60 Teleported, for
short 61 Time between anniversaries
DOWN
1 Hot cocoa holders
2 Lot measurement 3 ___ poetry
4 “Will you let me finish?”
5 Snowcation lodging
6 Alternative to soy or almond
7 Sweet potato ___ 8 It might have a lamp or a stack of books on it
9 Alma, to Mirabel, in “Encanto”
10 Hulk out
11 Vang or Xiong, for example
12 ___ and hers matching set
14 Main role in “The Nutcracker”
17 Merge
18 Option on a soft serve machine 22 Moper’s
expression
24 Components
25 Spanish for “sun” 26 “Wheel of
Fortune” purchase 27 Radiology pioneer ___ L. Hart 28 Heaven-___ 29 Jjimjilbangs, for
example
30 “The Bluest
Eye” author Morrison 34 Was in charge 35 ___ skating 36 Skedaddled 38 Designer von
Furstenberg 39 Emits
forcefully 41 Kiddos’
vehicles 42 Purple crayon
user in kidlit 43 Floor plan
calculations
46 Degrees from
Wharton 47 Southernmost of
the Great Lakes 48 Went by horse
50 Actress Russo
51 ___ encryption
52 Use a swizzle stick 54 Brief sleep
55 Finish with the
same score