USA TODAY US Edition

CROSSWORD

CHEEKY APPROACH

- BY Gail Grabowski

ACROSS

1 Slams into 5 Does hip-hop 9 Olive Garden offering 14 Broken mirror, to some 15 Fifty-fifty 16 Like Super Bowl numerals 17 Not fooled by 18 Suffix for the well-to-do 19 Make jubilant 20 Gridiron Hail Mary, e.g. 23 Like veggies served with dip 24 Seemingly unemotiona­l sorts 25 Started a hand 27 Can’t do without 30 Mouse actions 33 Flow back 36 Many a newspaper 38 Alternativ­e to a text 39 Like the Clampetts, at first 41 Batch of Brownies? 43 Folksy Guthrie 44 Twiddled one’s thumbs 46 “Animal House” getups 48 Web address component 49 Sources of aromatic wood 51 Repair-shop stock 53 Flannel pattern, often 55 Don’t set lofty goals 59 Part of HRH, at times 61 Five on the Beaufort Wind Scale 64 Live and breathe 66 Far from sociable 67 State firmly 68 Zellweger of “Chicago” 69 Natural skin soother 70 City near Lake Tahoe 71 The planets, since Pluto’s downgrade 72 Places to build 73 “As ___ on TV”

DOWN

1 Places for urban gardens 2 Response to “Are too!” 3 D.C. rails 4 Strand, as a winter storm 5 What no production Corvette has 6 Like diehard fans 7 Cop’s collar 8 “Slammin’ Sammy” of the links 9 Event for select customers 10 “You’ve got mail” ISP 11 Many an ATM insert 12 “Toodle-oo!” 13 From the top 21 Scored 100 on, say 22 Not as dry as brut 26 Succotash bean 28 Gossip that’s “dished” 29 The John B of song, e.g. 31 Drug bust unit 32 Opening for 11-Down 33 Many a Charlton Heston movie 34 Act the 14-Across 35 Attentiong­rabbing lettering 37 Exercise system with poses 40 Not imagined 42 “The Prodigal Son” and others 45 Selected by an NFL team, say 47 Show signs of life 50 Arthurian address 52 Mascara mishaps 54 Car window stick-on 56 Flood zone structure 57 Gas in a layer 58 Victors’ shout 59 Subway fare? 60 Biz bigwig 62 Jazz jam highlight 63 “___, mon” (Scot’s words) 65 Red, Yellow or Black

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