USA TODAY International Edition

CROSSWORD

- BY Fred Piscop

ACROSS

1 Far from original 6 Way out there 10 Share a border with 14 BP gas brand 15 Prom night wheels 16 Plenty angry 17 It may include a dental plan 20 Dismiss unceremoni­ously 21 Fighting tooth and nail 22 Election day lineups 23 Wine glass feature 24 Sax great Getz 25 Place for a throw pillow 28 Part of a crooked deck 33 Cartel including the UAE 34 Make public 35 Pentathlet­e’s sword 36 Tennis judge’s call 37 Foot and fathom, for two 39 Zodiac beast 40 By no means 29-Down 42 “Delta of Venus” author Anais 43 Off one’s rocker 44 Classic toy wagon brand 48 Hobby farm dwellers 49 Hook’s aide 50 Housekeepi­ng worker 52 Like King Minos 55 Battery fluid 56 Tanning lotion letters 59 Character with a descender, perhaps 62 Gulf sultanate 63 DeWitt Clinton’s canal 64 Bring shame to 65 Await a decision 66 In need of a recharge 67 Foamy coffee order

DOWN

1 Rummy cake 2 Visa competitor, for short 3 Poor dog’s portion, in rhyme 4 Bandage brand 5 Like much diet fare, informally 6 Nissan sedan 7 It may be pumped or bumped 8 Increase, with “up” 9 Hurlers of good-natured insults 10 With suspicion, as a look 11 Slip occupant 12 Hard-to-ignore impulse 13 Driving-range array 18 Newscast segment 19 Decked out 23 Pollen holder 24 Vaudeville bit 25 Green energy option 26 “Tosca” or “Aida” 27 Awful-smelling 29 Like a tropical forest’s climate 30 Chef’s splatter catcher 31 Gasp or wince, e.g. 32 Test-driven cars 37 Like an open border, perhaps 38 River past the Sphinx 41 Bloat, as one’s abdomen 43 Young kiltie 45 General Bradley 46 Hosted, as a pageant 47 Racetrack boundary 51 10, on a scale of 1to10 52 Sound of a wooden shoe 53 Circus Maximus locale 54 McGregor of “Beauty and the Beast” 55 Home to about 4.5 billion 56 NBA or NFL factoid 57 Flea or fly 58 Like the center space, in Bingo 60 “Odds ___ . . .” 61 Unschedule­d, so far (Abbr.)

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