USA TODAY US Edition

CROSSWORD

DUTY LAST

- BY Patrick Jordan

ACROSS

1 Hotel-to-airport rides

5 Some Pentagon staffers Sorghum or 10 14 soybeans Orchestra’s pitch setter Pickling solution 16 1715 Valuable vein Auto pioneer Ransom Eli ___ 18 Car perenniall­y among top-sellers

20 Features of wind-up toys

21 Most common Scrabble tile point value

Citi Field’s borough Book that’s often

222325 locked Chance to play 26 Baskin-Robbins servings

28 Luau entree

32 Hurl insults at

33 Fail in the clutch

34 Superb serve from Serena

35 Tidal refluxes

36 Yours, archaicall­y

37 Make a shambles of

38 Feel fluish

39 Seven swimmers in a carol

40 Parking lot figure

41 Space beneath a desk

43 Gamboling goat-men

44 Have a repulsive

56-Across

45 Grows tiresome

46 Quaking in one’s boots

49 Disneyland experience

50 Flapjack-selling chain

53 Flag-carrying marchers

City on Alaska’s 5655 Norton Sound Evidence of decay 57 Pageant VIP 58 Periods often named for rulers

59 Squirts, say

60 No longer in

61 Email folder heading

DOWN

1 Compete on “Iron Chef America”

2 Fit for the job

3 Film star’s stand-in

4 Attorney General Jeff

5 Finds repellent

6 “The Gift of the Magi” device 7 Eat by candleligh­t, say

8 Pass target, sometimes

9 Cause of a tidal wave

10 Private eye’s customer 11 Travel far and wide 12 Anthony Hopkins role in “Thor” 13 They’re above the abs

19 Risk getting bleeped

24 Fit for the job

25 Charlie Brown and friends, e.g.

26 Fajita filler, often

27 Mountain man’s abode

28 Dry white wine variety 29 “Encino Man” star

30 Not as congenial

31 Debonair fellows

33 Tailor’s marker

36 Having conflictin­g interpreta­tions, perhaps 37 Rungs on a ship’s rope ladder

39 Like see-through lingerie

40 Kilmer who played Batman

42 “Good hit, no field” player’s stats

43 Smoothed with an abrasive

45 Smoothie maker’s blender setting

46 Trash transporte­r

47 Building inspector’s reference

48 Not just occasional­ly

49 Almanac tidbit

51 Arabian Peninsula land

52 Exterminat­or’s target

54 Thurman of “The Producers”

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