USA TODAY CROSSWORD FIRST CLASS

ACROSS

1 Answer to the joke “What did the beaver say after stubbing its toe?”

4 Billiards

8 Ensnare

12 Muscle or musical

quality

13 “I don’t dream of ___” (response to “What’s your dream job?”)

15 Base ingredient in

upma

16 “Don’t be

immature!”

18 “Beware the ___ of

March”

19 Horses, to knights 20 Halfway mark

22 Excessively collect 23 Style of pho from

northern Vietnam 24 Take to court

25 Augusta Savage’s

field

26 Lead-in to “cone”

or “Caps”

28 Incense remnants 30 Stitch

32 Not just some

34 Year, in Portuguese 35 The Spice Girls had

one in 2007

39 Actress de Armas 40 Name that’s a

college backward 41 Energy

43 “Smarter in Seconds” creator Blair

46 Baking measurement (Abbr.)

48 “r u ___?!”

(“4 real?!”)

50 “Darn!”

51 To-do list items

55 “High five!”

57 Wireless

undergarment

59 “Ta-da!”

60 Having the means 61 Supervisor for someone on shrooms © Andrews Mcmeel

63 Chunky wooden

shoe

64 Psychics might

read them

65 Price

66 Large beer holders 67 Treat similar to a

milkshake

68 Stops waffling

DOWN

1 People who may tell you to “say ‘ah’” 2 Animal with an insect diet

3 “Veep” protagonist Selena

4 +

5 Item on a rowboat 6 Malia or Sasha

7 Enter a username and password

8 Group of three

9 Red root vegetable in a salad

10 “___ Q” (Broadway musical)

11 Uses Ctrl+v

12 Olympian Danvers 14 Take a mulligan on 17 Set with 1, 3, 5, etc. 21 Instrument with

three pedals 23 Hindu festival 27 Grandmother 29 Ramen or pho 31 Gradually

withdraw

33 Place to park a car 34 Cash dispensers 36 “Workers of the

world, ___!”

37 Trivial criticisms

38 Place for a bathroom break on a road trip 42 Mass mobilization at the 1999 WTO conference, e.g. 43 “It’s me

again!” 44 “Hungry Hungry Hippos” piece 45 Like a clock

with hands 47 Fried bread

served with chole

4/5 49 Word before “bra”

or “drink”

52 Flour used to make

47-Down

53 Play a ukulele

54 Actress Knightley 56 Store that sells dog

toys

58 A spider has eight 59 “Hey! Over here!” 62 Buddy