USA TODAY US Edition

CROSSWORD

- EDITED Fred Piscop BY Patrick Jordan

ACROSS

1 Eggs Benedict meat, often

4 Not so ruddy

9 In vogue again

14 Coveted charts position

15 “Go Beyond Pain” sloganeer 16 Supply with gear 17 Six-day-a-week delivery, slangily

19 Prizefight­er’s prize

20 Negotiate a corner

21 Word before a sale price

22 No longer on one’s plate

23 Works like a dog 25 Food court locale 26 Largest city of Turkey

30 Word with disco or dead-ball

33 Amish subgroups, e.g.

36 Trolley supporter

37 Branch offshoot

38 Cropland segment

39 Slyly sarcastic

40 Enjoy a kiddie pool 41 Hudson River spawner

42 Cover with macadam

43 Said “No dice!” to

44 Weep noisily

45 Throat-soothing drops

47 With great frequency

49 Like a cayenne, vis-a-vis a jalapeno 53 Where “besuboru” is played

55 Pivot on an axis 58 Successor of the mark and markka

59 Beyond sufficient

60 Theodore Roosevelt’s Long Island home

62 Any of 12 of our teeth

63 Guitar neck features

64 “Cancel that” key

65 Reports prejudicia­lly

66 He wrote of sour grapes

67 “Get it now?”

DOWN

1 Academy Awards VIPs

2 Render invalid

3 Anne who was Stiller’s partner

4 One to hang with

5 “Close, but no cigar”

6 Pastrami buyer’s request 7 Element in Stephen King novels

8 Have faith in, with “on”

9 Amendment XXI, to Amendment XVIII 10 EEOC part 11 Classic auto polish brand

12 Command in a levitation act 13 Offer the first bid 18 On the guest list

24 Twisty road segment

25 Army mascot

27 Ball’s sitcom partner

28 Wide-eyed

29 Pence’s predecesso­r

31 Midway amusement

32 Like all Scotch whiskey

33 Smart-alecky talk

34 Electric guitarist’s effect

35 Fruit in tart jelly 37 Dorothy’s transport to Oz

39 Sweet ___ (baseball bat feature)

43 Sci-fi role for Keanu

45 Social butterflie­s’ opposites

46 Urban renewal target

48 Drama series with Susan Dey

50 Subways, to Brits 51 Dry-___ marker 52 Rolls-___ (jet engine maker)

53 Sits in with the band

54 In a frenzied state

55 Dagwood’s napping spot 56 Instrument similar to a harp 57 Capitalize­s on 61 Telepathic trait, for short

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