USA TODAY US Edition

CROSSWORD

DRAWER KEEPERS

- EDITED Fred Piscop BY Patrick Jordan

ACROSS

1 Barista’s offering, slangily

5 Cut into paper-thin slices

10 Snooty sort 14 “Beg pardon . . .” 15 Discover by chance 16 Handed-down

48-Down

17 Like a kickboxer’s feet, typically

18 Sight-related

19 Home-care giver

20 Sporter of smart, stylish clothes

23 Collector of dues from drs.

25 Creeping greenery

26 Some wedding party figures

27 The “c” in etc.

29 One of a yawl’s pair

31 Reason for a bodybuilde­r to

5-Across, perhaps

33 Seeks handouts

37 “Enchanted” girl in a 2004 movie

38 Comics caveman Alley

39 ___ mater

40 Salon supplies

41 Distributo­r of current events articles

44 Lasses’ schoolmate­s

45 Historic London theater, with “the”

46 More pretentiou­s, in a way

50 “Selma” director DuVernay 51 Brewpub offering 52 Opposition party group, in the U.K.

56 Submit to the IRS

57 Is decked out in

58 Rolling in dough

61 Draftable, once

62 In need of extinguish­ing

63 Al who wrote “Earth in the Balance”

64 “Friends” character with a pet monkey

65 1-Down and hook, for most boxers

66 Cameo stone

DOWN

1 Start of a one-two punch 2 “Eureka!”

3 Able to play many positions

4 Word from the flock 5 Industrial-strength cleaning device

6 Wide around the middle

7 DOJ employee 8 Word on a sample check

9 Cover, as barnacles on a hull 10 Symbol in a URL 11 Sign of engine trouble, maybe 12 Gavel-pounding judge’s word 13 Tavern round 21 Well-ventilated

22 Suffix in record books

23 Suffered from muscle strain

24 Dry and crumbly, like some cornbread

28 Presidenti­al terms, to historians

29 Requests for cat food

30 Nile reptiles

32 Dug out dandelions, perhaps

33 Shakespear­e, with “the”

34 Mountain statistic 35 Google’s message service

36 Wings coating

41 Spiral-tusked sea creature

42 Buffalo, yaks et al.

43 ___ Bator, Mongolia

44 MGM’s mascot

46 With respect to

47 Thick-skinned herbivore, familiarly

48 Grimm offerings

49 Inventors’ seeds

50 Scrub, as a mission

53 Informal eatery

54 Skeptic’s retort

55 “It follows that . . .”

59 React to tear gas

60 Witch’s whammy

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© Andrews McMeel 1/26

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