USA TODAY International Edition
CROSSWORD
DO I HEAR AN ECHO?
ACROSS
1 Desirable group of guests 6 Undesirable picnic “guests”
10 Get out of bed 14 Word of greeting 15 Stir up
16 Tall, in Spanish 17 Religion with five pillars
18 Actor Chaz 19 Prejudice
20 1992 TLC hit
23 “Golly!”
26 “___ the season to be jolly”
27 Gives a hand to 28 Rhyme or ___ 30 Not “for here” 33 Have a dispute 34 Requirement to visit some countries 35 Long, long story 39 1999 Destiny’s Child hit
42 Hide and ___ 43 Option on an edit menu 44 Second half of a musical, often 45 Double- reed instrument 46 “Strange . . .” 47 Counterpart of pleasure
50 “Wow!”
51 “Didn’t I tell you?” 52 1965 Byrds hit 57 “Wonder Woman” bad guy 58 Dinghy, dory or dhow
59 Word of obligation 63 Bioengineering target
64 “You’re something ___”
65 Fluid that can be donated 66 Airline assignment 67 Back area 68 Christmas creatures DOWN
1 Yellowfin tuna 2 “___ Miserables” 3 Not feeling so hot 4 Thick slice 5 Marinara sauce ingredients 6 Chain with a cowboy hat logo 7 Beginner, informally 8 Singer Turner 9 Bad roommate for a neatnik 10 Officiant at a Jewish wedding 11 Trojan War epic 12 Attempts
13 Not difficult 21 Plane’s overhead storage location 22 Hoops star Ming 23 Snatches up 24 Creepy
25 Bird on the German coat of arms
29 Be a sore loser, perhaps
30 ~
31 Capital once called Christiania 32 One of the states of matter 34 Wine, in Italian 35 Sets on the attack 36 Singers lower than sopranos 37 Move smoothly 38 Line heard by the audience but not by other characters 40 Palindromic fella
41 Spa garment 45 Taking testosterone, for short 46 Debtor’s letters 47 Liquidized substance 48 Staples Center, for the L. A. Sparks
49 Map within a map
50 Cute river animal 52 Graffiti artists’ signatures
53 Prefix akin to “super”
54 Part to play 55 Space shuttle grp. 56 Legally invalid 60 End of 55- Down’s URL
61 Long- handled gardening tool 62 Football scores, for short