USA TODAY CROSSWORD
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1 Honolulu’s island
5 Promotional
paragraph
10 Stick in a test kit
14 Turn with a
spatula
15 Not as common
16 Flag holder
17 Government
agents
18 Sound
transmission
19 Golfer’s target
20 Not happy
23 Snake-haired figure
in Greek myth
24 Counterparts of
flats, in music
26 Name that means
“born again”
27 Is looking for
29 Apple pie ___
mode
30 “. . . but I ___”
36 Intelligence org. in the Susan Williams book “White Malice”
37 “Great, one more thing to be terrified about”
40 Greenish-blue hue 41 Visibly unsafe for
eating
42 “Take this one”
43 ___ Kippur
45 Name that becomes a direction if you addat
46 Part of PPV or mpg 47 Unfairly deprive
49 Skillet, for
example
50 Groups of
organized workers 55 Hard precipitation 57 Ab exercise
58 Unwanted trail in
a kitchen
61 Past partners
62 Shovel relative
63 Des Moines’ state 64 “Definitely!”
65 What a phoenix
rises from © Andrews Mcmeel
66 “My mind is blown!”
DOWN
1 Not right
2 Ginger ___
3 Not stored in an
easy-to-find place 4 “___ Down” (Diana
Ross hit)
5 Talks a big game 6 Actress Linney
7 Language in
Pakistan
8 Take the ___
(assume control)
9 Liquid ingredient
in soups
10 Perfectly round
object
11 Loud bird
12 100%
13 Nectar collector
21 Soft leather
22 Rodeo rope
23 Chaotic fight
25 Winter Olympics
athlete
26 ___ and rave
28 “Smooth
Operator” singer 31 Translation of
“yo soy” 32 Get larger 33 “No shoes in the house,” for example 34 Comes to a
close 35 Mischievous 38 “___? For spring? Groundbreaking” (sarcastic line in “The Devil Wears Prada”) 39 Capital of Tamil Nadu, India 44 Chaotic crowd 46 Kung ___
chicken 48 ___ nova (Brazilian music style) 49 Plumbing
tubes 50 Falsehoods 51 Tears into
shreds 52 Salt Lake City’s
state
2/16 53 Shade of lipstick or
heels
54 Fluffy precipitation 55 “Howdy!”
56 Tool for splitting
wood
59 Number that sometimes follows LGBTQIA
60 Tool for cutting
wood