USA TODAY US Edition

CROSSWORD

- BY Patrick Jordan

COLLECTIVE EFFORT

ACROSS

1 Puzzle with pictures

6 Pizza crust choice

10 Leave rolling in the aisles

14 Rid of data 15 Uneducated sort 16 Roofer’s piece 17 Yellow-footed wader 18 Arrived at a heliport, say

19 One of three in a water molecule

20 Compact car since

1998

22 One-tenth donation

23 Common Core component

24 Ellison who writes speculativ­e fiction 25 Most belly buttons 28 Like steppe vegetation

30 Pay stub listing

31 Dental hygienist’s advice

32 DVD player brand

35 “There ___ was a . . .”

36 Word that can follow the last parts of 20- and 48-Across and 11- and 27-Down

37 Seal the fate of

38 Seat seeker, briefly

39 Drifted off after a lullaby

40 Lizard in insurance ads 41 Monticello, to Jefferson

43 Ducklings’ fathers

44 Smiled from ear to ear

46 Thigh muscle, for short

47 One-way sign shape

48 One of noble birth

53 Enjoy a hot tub

54 Not subject to debate

55 ___ Baggins of “The Hobbit”

56 Part of a cutting tool 57 Electricia­n’s supply 58 Break off a relationsh­ip 59 Morsel on an everything bagel

60 Warning, of a sort

61 Observes Labor Day

DOWN

1 Home to Nemo, in “Finding Nemo”

2 Cartesian “therefore”

3 “Domestic goddess” Roseanne

4 Retread, e.g.

5 Fixed prices

6 Builder’s land buy

7 Website that streams “South Park”

8 “Sacred” bird of Africa

9 Aerialist’s safeguard

10 A Slinky “walks” down them

11 Clinton Presidenti­al Center city 12 Molokai Airport greeting 13 Trump travel ban nation

21 Pre-CIA spy org.

22 Covers with black goo

24 Footlocker fastener

25 “Come hungry. Leave happy” chain 26 Taboo, to a tyke 27 It started with a July

16, 1945 blast

28 Slalom site

29 Sulky look

31 Worry unnecessar­ily

33 Blast furnace fuel

34 Cookie magnate Wally

36 Word before rags or tidings 37 Date on a contest entry form

39 Meat-and-veggies dish

40 It’ll get your attention

42 Flavored like much BBQ fare

43 Adjective on an invoice

44 Ballpark thefts 45 Crumble, as support

46 Promoted pawn, usually

48 Wide part of a sombrero

49 Angler’s enticement

50 GM make until 2004

51 News item with a bio

52 Colon pair

54 Slam dunk’s point value

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© Andrews McMeel 10/27

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