USA TODAY US Edition

YOU GOTTA BE JOKING!

- EDITED Fred Piscop BY Bruce Venzke

ACROSS

1 Irish dances

5 Cyber-junk

9 Flower with a yellow central disk 14 Workplace-monitoring org. 15 Macpherson on five Swimsuit Issue covers

16 Brand name in White Russians, for short

17 Line that doesn’t fly on the Shabbat 18 Blasting ___ (detonators)

19 Bird of the bayou

20 Nikkei Index currency 21 Colgate-Palmolive soap since 1970

23 Got top billing

25 Factor in club choice

26 Have a 33-Down

27 Partner of Principe

31 Capitol Hill gofer

35 Rub the wrong way

37 Marry on the sly

38 Hurricane feature

39 Bit of shutter hardware 41 Letters before omicrons

42 Place for a fill-up

44 Ari of NPR

47 Whiskey in a Manhattan

48 Wood of the Rolling Stones

49 Looks acceptable at first glance

53 “You gotta be joking!” and a hint to the last parts of

21-, 31- and 42-Across 58 “Rope-a-dope” boxer 59 Dostoevsky’s “The ___”

60 Net judges’ calls

61 Fly like a moth

62 Primate of Madagascar

63 Not suckered by

64 Starting score in tennis

65 Aisle with butter and eggs

66 Hockey thug

67 Bills depicting the Great Seal

DOWN

1 Outback babies

2 Land in a river

3 Accra’s land

4 Cousin ___ (“Jimmy Kimmel Live” regular)

5 Stash away

6 Common kilt pattern

7 St. Moritz setting

8 Work well together

9 Receptacle under a grate 10 Successor of mono 11 Amos with the 2012 single “Flavor” 12 Musk of Tesla, Inc. 13 World Series prize 21 More than just miffed

22 Blackthorn fruit

24 Realize, as profits

27 Ultimate authority

28 Figures on toy boxes

29 Go-go dancer’s skirt

30 Therefore, in logic

31 It sells, it’s said

32 Y-sporting collegians

33 Deli snack

34 “The Twelve Days of Christmas” tree

36 “Jeopardy!” whiz Jennings

39 Salma who played Frida Kahlo

40 Celeb pair

42 Gershon of “Face/Off”

43 Benedict Arnold’s crime

45 Big name in canned meat

46 Odes, e.g.

49 Brief but heated argument

50 Place for a perm

51 Martini garnish

52 Toys with strings

53 Decorate richly

54 Creative flash

55 “La Boheme” soprano 56 Place to post opinions

57 City on the Truckee 61 Progressiv­e spokespers­on

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© Andrews McMeel 1/17

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