USA TODAY CROSSWORD

SAYING FOUR LETTER WORDS

ACROSS

1 Composer Bowers 5 Soccer great

Hamm

8 Like most sushi

fish

11 1/12 of a foot

12 “That had to hurt” 13 “All bets ___ off”

14 “Choose any!”

17 Showed the way 18 Solemn vow

19 Work with thread 22 Some bindi

shapes

25 Gay anthem with a letter-based dance

26 Delude

27 Ms. ___-Man (pellet-chomping arcade character) 28 Root veggie in key

sir alicha

29 Chopped up into

cubes

30 Kind treatment,

for short

31 Not strict

32 Rihanna’s zodiac

sign

33 “I promise I won’t

ask again!”

37 Seal skin coats

38 Glasses protector 39 ___ Lankan

42 Address with

an @

43 “I ___ a Dream”

44 Exam for Elle

Woods

45 Safety items for

acrobats

46 Nowhere to be

found

47 Exams

48 Direction opposite

NNW

49 Beyonce genre

50 Eid al-fitr meal

52 “Please visit

again!”

56 “Uno” in English

© Andrews Mcmeel

57 Feeling after a pole-dancing class

58 Sunbeam

59 Final trio of the

alphabet

60 Like super bright

colors

61 “And you?” in

Spanish

DOWN

1 First-aid ___

2 Genetic substance in the game Eterna

3 “Ew, gross!”

4 Conch or puka,

e.g.

5 State of mind documented in a period-tracking app

6 Payment promise 7 Like son jarocho

music

8 Yogurt for balancing spicy flavors

9 Curved structure 10 Supermodel Alek 15 “___, I’m Ready” (Barbara Mason hit)

16 Treaty

19 Cinderella team’s

tale, e.g.

20 Sword for Curtis

Mcdowald

21 Marries

22 Make a choice

23 Former NHL player who wrote “Black Ice”

24 Precise

25 “Is that so?”

26 Shape of an

Othello piece

28 Crunchy deli

sammies

29 Have a meal

32 Asana

34 Pair used in some

X Games events 35 “Star Trek: Discovery” character

Adira ___

36 Avoid

embarrassment 5/7

37 Writing tools

40 Pet rodent

41 The “i” in fwiw

43 Wish

44 Opposite of more 46 “The Baby-sitters

Club” actor Xochitl 47 “Sorry, this seat’s

___”

49 Small horse

51 Superhero alter ego for Maya Lopez

52 51-Down

portrayer Alaqua 53 Prohibit

54 Nondairy milk

source

55 Big Apple school