USA TODAY US Edition

CROSSWORD

HEIGHT FRIGHT

- EDITED Fred Piscop BY Patrick Jordan

ACROSS

1 Dizzy Gillespie’s genre

6 Apple Store buys, briefly 10 Foghorn Leghorn catchphras­e 14 Have a crush on 15 Initials of urgency 16 Frosty’s is a button 17 Yam or rutabaga 18 Famed 15th-century caravel

19 Hardly hefty

20 Poor career choice for an acrophobe 23 Place for a salt scrub 25 No-goals score, in soccer

26 Word before rule or retriever

27 Poor career choice for an acrophobe

31 Share, as a story

32 Did some weeding

33 Brooks who directed “The Producers”

36 Performed flawlessly on

37 Took the blue ribbon

38 Expressed, as a farewell

39 “Look over here!”

40 Heroic deed

42 Target for a

44-Across

44 Poor career choice for an acrophobe

46 Good place to be, in relation to a skunk

49 Common cask wood

50 WWW pop-ups

51 Poor career choice for an acrophobe 55 Indication of a speaker’s emotion 56 Nocturnal birds of prey

57 “Fake news!”

60 “As ___” (letter closing)

61 Home to a heron

62 Gather bit by bit

63 Wines often paired with steak

64 Bow-toting Greek god

65 Mountie uniform material

DOWN

1 Grandpa Munster’s pet, e.g. 2 Academic’s URL ender 3 Reggae star who wrote “I Shot the Sheriff”

4 Treat whose name appears on it twice

5 Each, in pricing

6 Earth layer below the crust

7 “The Travels of Marco Polo” setting

8 “Will you allow me?”

9 Adorn with sequins, say

10 Zinger at a roast 11 Sturdily constructe­d 12 In reserve 13 Nation on the travel ban list

21 Punch-in time, for many

22 EGBDF part

23 Silverman with two Emmys

24 Item on a game board

28 Wee Scot

29 ID card feature

30 Particle in an electrolyt­e

33 Carroll’s tea party host, with “the”

34 Neatened the perimeter of

35 Goatish looks

37 Roll of cash

38 Public transit option

40 Speeder’s penalty 41 Touchdown territory

42 Housefly’s demise

43 Potential, as for success

44 Rainy-day devices

45 Razzie Award movies, collective­ly

46 Put into words

47 Show conclusive­ly

48 Grew dimmer

52 Pitcher with a flaring spout

53 “Let me add . . .”

54 Birkenstoc­k bottom

58 What jowls or spirits may do

59 Free throw’s point value

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© Andrews McMeel 2/2

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