IT’S COLD OUTSIDE

ACROSS

1 Column counterparts 5 Makeshift boat 9 Home to some Buddhists 14 Swedish furniture giant 15 Brainstorming success 16 Colorful rock 17 Storage place on a boat

19 Kidney- related 20 Celebrity chef Curry 21 ___ Cruces, New Mexico

23 Like most WNBA players 24 Networking assets 26 Annoyance 28 Military man in the game Clue

35 The “C” of TLC 36 “thank u, next” singer Grande 37 Pony up 38 Stashes out of sight 40 Finale 41 Annoyance 43 Angry feeling 44 Arctic landscape 47 Marsh plant 48 Realm of office politics

51 Young deer 52 Bowen Yang’s show, for short

53 12 p. m.

55 Took a seat

58 “We’re on the same page” 63 Winfrey who played Deborah Lacks 65 Common agricultural sight in Nebraska

67 ___ cum laude 68 Ladder step

69 8 on the Beaufort wind force scale 70 Susan Sontag piece 71 Time traveler’s destinations

72 Bridge stat

DOWN

1 Costa ___

2 “Fine by me” 3 “Wish you ___ here!” 4 Droops 5 “Disturbia” singer 6 “Without further ___ . . .” 7 Collapsed 8 Self- satisfied exclamation 9 Black goop

10 “Ohh, that joke makes sense now!”

11 It might go from green to yellow to black 12 Abbreviated list ending 13 Inform

18 The Buckeye State 22 Like dreidels and roulette wheels 25 ___ Slam ( alliterative tennis feat)

27 High- priority acronym 28 Capital on the Nile 29 Catalog pages meant to be filled out and returned 30 Model Precious 31 Brand of chocolate truffles 32 Spanish for “mothers” 33 Gave an enthusiastic review

34 Like ombre hair 35 Stylish

39 Put in the overhead bin, say

42 To do this is human, it’s said 45 Coffee vessels 46 Storefront coverings 49 Canal locale

50 “Frozen II” snowman 53 Keep your ___ clean 54 Numbered musical work 56 43,560- square- foot unit 57 Museum’s virtual offering

59 Jobs 60 Harvest

61 Jazz singer Fitzgerald 62 Genesis setting 64 Horse food 66 Molecule hidden in “fingernails”

© Andrews McMeel