USA TODAY US Edition

CROSSWORD

- BY Patrick Jordan

ACROSS

1 Itching to go

6 Sales agent’s handout 10 Santa’s suit stainer 14 Word before “the law” or “it all” 15 Alternativ­e to a cab 16 Hard-to-resist impulse

17 Test for an apnea sufferer

19 Au naturel

20 “You called?”

21 Unprepared student’s dread

22 Spouting swimmers

24 Solo that may elicit a “Brava!” 26 Twister of the truth 27 Concerned with right and wrong

29 Idle chatter

34 Substance in a stratosphe­ric layer

35 Enthusiast­ic reviews

36 Paleozoic or Mesozoic

37 Like skin after Botox treatment

38 Is in harmony

39 Digitize, as a photo

40 BYOB part

41 Herb in pasta sauce

42 Western author Bret

43 Where to see the Rockettes

45 Olympic blades

46 Fifth Avenue retailer

47 Niagara Falls ambience

48 Equivalent of A flat

51 Hardly close by

53 Best Buy buys, briefly

56 Obsessed captain of fiction 57 Workplace wagering group

60 Actor’s resume listing

61 Many a college freshman

62 Move crab-style

63 Cat collar attachment

64 Does embroidery

65 War horse

DOWN

1 Posing no challenge

2 Unlike a rank amateur

3 Avoids crashing into

4 Pre-festival time

5 Chameleon or crocodile

6 Budgetary sacrifices

7 Share a border

8 Holly berry’s hue

9 Sauvignon blanc and pinot grigio, for two 10 Impreza automaker 11 Word before hygiene or history 12 Legendary brute 13 Caddie’s pocketful 18 America’s Cup race locale

23 Some smokehouse meats 25 Bombastic blog post 26 Full of zip

27 Ted Nugent, the “___ City Madman” 28 Tanglewood’s Seiji ___ Hall

29 Reason to call 911

30 Good thing to break, perhaps 31 What a spy might write or crack

32 Ready to explode

33 Walkers’ supports

38 Big wins in Las Vegas

39 Depletes gradually

41 Porcine victim of Hercules

42 Paris Hilton or Patty Hearst

44 “City of the Beasts” novelist Allende

47 Cheese gowith, for short

48 What you wear

49 Item with a tongue and a toe

50 Word that can follow the last parts of 17-,

29-, 43- and

57-Across 51 Not very many 52 Distinctiv­e features of 1959 Cadillacs 54 Big name in bananas 55 Laplander’s transport 58 Brokerage charge 59 Avocado discard

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