USA TODAY US Edition

CROSSWORD

PULLING A SCAM

- BY Gail Grabowski

ACROSS

1 Bartlett relative 5 Heineken, vis-a-vis Budweiser 11 Common coffee break hour 14 Not fooled by 15 Howard Cosell’s topper 16 Regret bitterly 17 Penny-pinching 18 Did a mailroom job 19 Treasury Dept. branch 20 Backyard incinerato­r 22 One speaking with a burr 23 Marshmallo­w Fluff, e.g. 24 Jeter, the last Yankee with a single-digit number 26 What a gorilla beats 29 Become overcast 32 Subtle “Over here!” 35 Subtle “Excuse me . . .” 37 Bamboo eater 38 Long, long time 39 Pre-made images for graphic designers 41 Frittata need 42 Cropped up 44 “A ___ bagatelle!” 45 Goes out with 46 Fast forward’s opposite 48 Praise to the heavens 50 Bill of Microsoft 52 Popular potatoes 56 Applicatio­n to chapped lips 58 Warm, sleeveless outerwear 61 Cause of a swelled head 62 South Dakota’s capital 63 Machu Picchu dweller 64 Soft shot at Wimbledon 65 Needing ibuprofen, say 66 Read the UPC of 67 Birthday card figure 68 Command before “Go!” 69 Roundup group

DOWN

1 Lays a 41-Across, so to speak 2 Leading by a point 3 Bandmate of Lennon 4 Share a door, as rooms 5 “You’re on!” 6 Peaty wasteland 7 Sound from an Abyssinian 8 Chose, with “for” 9 Walked like a tosspot 10 Rafael Cruz, familiarly 11 Joint that may buckle without warning 12 Coin that debuted on 1/1/02 13 Source of tweets? 21 Ebenezer’s outburst 22 Blood bank supply 25 Fully absorbed 27 Fix for a wobbly table, perhaps 28 Conical shelter 30 Jigsaw puzzler’s starting place, usually 31 Pesters nonstop 32 1-Across, e.g. 33 Like a poor loser 34 Sphere containing a winter landscape, perhaps 36 Surname of four “Animal Crackers” actors 39 12-Down fraction 40 Tight-lipped 43 “The King and I” setting 45 Abjectly servile 47 Fix, as boundaries 49 Poem that’s often “on” or “to” something 51 Nodded off 53 From this day on 54 Award for Ben or Casey Affleck 55 Put up with 56 Banjo virtuoso Fleck 57 Wide-eyed 59 Moundsmen’s stats 60 Canal serving Rochester 62 Either of two victims of the Big Bad Wolf

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