USA TODAY US Edition

CROSSWORD

- BY Patrick Jordan

CASE STUDY

ACROSS 1 Cup-filling limit 5 Transactio­ns at Belmont 9 Heretic factions, perhaps 14 Move like a mudslide 15 Swear to be true 16 Dog-days complaint 17 Wavy lines, in comics 18 Typically buggy software version 19 Artful deception 20 Tribal healer 23 Carson City’s locale (Abbr.) 24 Bathwater temperatur­e tester 25 Occur before, historical­ly 27 One subject to arrest 32 Genesis of an invention 33 Klum of “Project Runway” 34 Places to graze 36 Channel for armchair athletes 39 Brooks with a dual role in “Spaceballs” 40 Word that can follow the first parts of 20and 58-Across and 11- and 29-Down 43 Any score, at the top of the 10th inning 44 Fitbit unit 46 Foldable abode 47 Novelist-publisher go-between 49 Easily crumbled cheese 51 Where stevedores toil 53 Like some lengthy TV episodes 56 Prefix with wife or way 57 Dinghy propeller 58 Place to drain pasta 64 “I wanna have it!” 66 Lena of “Hollywood Homicide” 67 One-eyed Norse deity 68 “Halt, matey!” 69 Await a decision 70 Tyke’s taboo 71 Brief squabble 72 Repairs, as a Wimbledon court 73 Whole bunch DOWN 1 “1812 Overture” sound 2 Was chauffeure­d 3 Big name in golf and tennis wear 4 Was worthy of 5 Pandered to 6 Like a 43-Across game 7 Double-handled bag, typically 8 Home to some cypresses 9 Put one’s John Hancock on 10 Two-legged source of red meat 11 Showy annual flower 12 Ready for a tenant 13 Jobs of Silicon Valley 21 Funnel-shaped 22 Launch an insurrecti­on 26 Ruby of “A Raisin in the Sun” 27 Resistance units 28 They’re slipped into slippers 29 JPEG or MP3 30 River of Dresden 31 Straps on Santa’s sleigh 35 First chip in the pot 37 Ben & Jerry’s quantity 38 Clears after expenses 41 Classic arcade name 42 One-inch putt, say 45 Word before talk or rally 48 Boys after baptisms, often 50 Develop a liking for 52 Makes modificati­ons to 53 “Animal House” getups 54 Choose to forfeit 55 Alternativ­es to moonroofs 59 Laine with Grammys in three categories 60 Like two of a dog’s legs 61 Symbol of immunity on “Survivor” 62 Mudville player count 63 Have down pat 65 Winter hrs. in Denver

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6/26 © Andrews McMeel

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