USA TODAY CROSSWORD

STEP UP

ACROSS

1 Pasta or rice

5 Some RSVPS

8 Color

11 The Bay ___

12 “There’ll be a price to pay, though, won’t there?”

16 Connection

17 Someone who might save a bunch on turf

18 Payments after

due dates

20 Crew

21 ___ Lanka

22 Hidden stockpile 25 Use a wooden

spoon

26 Anna’s sister in

“Frozen”

27 “Circular” or

“band” tool

30 “Green ___” (sitcom set on a farm)

31 School near the

Liberty Bell

32 Response to an

overshare

33 Fanny pack’s

place

34 Anesthesiologists

and such (Abbr.) 35 “. . . unfortunately” 37 Caribou relative 38 Coin in Brussels or

Berlin

40 Dry-___ markers 41 Coloring

substance

42 Nudge

43 Sings with closed

lips

44 Enter, like data

46 Knight’s title

47 Garden slimers

51 Caesar salad

ingredients

55 Located exactly

58 Important piece of information in a mystery story

59 Not a good idea 60 Cosmetics chain

61 “Mazel ___!” © Andrews Mcmeel

62 Snakelike creature eaten by sea snakes

63 Beckoning

whisper

DOWN

1 “It’s your ___” (“Up

to you”)

2 Opera solo

3 Tenant protest

4 Places to buy bolillos or baguettes

5 Washington

Capitals’ org.

6 Acorn producer

7 Actress who played Joy in “Everything Everywhere All at Once”

8 Jumps like a

kangaroo

9 Practical functions 10 French for “to be” 12 “Act Your ___, Eve Brown” (Talia Hibbert novel)

13 Paw parts 14 Worthless

materials

15 Head of a

company

19 Season premiere 23 Brewery

products 24 ###-##- #### 25 Like a dragon’s

skin

27 Totally dominates 28 Accumulate 29 Metal thread 30 Blown away 34 ___ Everything

and Read 36 Peaches, pears, etc. in a plastic container 39 Vase with a

base 45 Orchard

organism 47 Saliva 48 “___ & Stitch” 49 School near

the Strip 50 Student’s stat

52 Unusual 2/9

53 Trail mix

ingredients

54 Candidate’s goal 56 “You’re the Only One ___ Told” (2020 book)

57 Zero, in soccer

scores