USA TODAY US Edition

CROSSWORD

- EDITED Fred Piscop BY Patrick Jordan

ACROSS 1 Bunyan’s blue ox

5 Sharpshoot­er’s aid

10 iDevice downloads

14 Viva voce

15 Afghanista­n’s capital 16 Passage for exhaust gases

17 Take to the cleaners, so to speak

18 Far from clumsy

19 Tomato in sauces

20 Original NATO member

21 Instrument in much Hawaiian music 23 Arcade machine inputs, once 25 Circle segment 26 Pre-Christmas mailing

27 Small house with a porch, typically 32 They’re laid in shipyards

34 Word after labor or life

35 Cause of a red face, perhaps

36 See 41-Down

37 Literary Lorna

38 Like all Scotch

39 TTYL part

40 MASH setups

41 Friend of Aramis and Porthos

42 Twenty percent

44 Revealing skirt feature

45 Fruit picker in Genesis

46 France with a 1921 Nobel

49 Val Kilmer’s role in “The Doors”

54 Fluffy lap dog, for short

55 Painter’s estimate

56 Boombox component 57 Word that can follow the first parts of 21- and 49-Across and 3- and 29-Down 58 Moviedom’s Woody or Chucky

59 Troubled incessantl­y

60 MASH part

61 Often-upped stake

62 Doesn’t stand erect

63 When nine-to-fivers work DOWN 1 Surface like a cork

2 Get out of the sack

3 Invoice phrase

4 Antlered bugler

5 Competed in ice dancing

6 Batting practice enclosures

7 2017 honor for Matthew Broderick

8 Fire alarm word

9 Beauty, in a simple way

10 Where Stanley sought Livingston­e 11 Graph line, e.g. 12 Shoe brand named for a cat 13 Scorch on a grill 21 Dubbed gentlemen 22 Do more than just ask

24 Simba’s mate

27 Comic Con setup

28 Some pottery class projects 29 Gilbert and Sullivan specialty

30 Nabisco’s flagship brand

31 Takes the plunge 32 Decisive victory for Rocky

33 Musk of SpaceX

34 Typeface subsection 37 Postponeme­nt, as of a decision

38 Plugging away

40 DVR pioneer

41 With 36-Across, “Bridge of Spies” actor

43 Like an Amazon

44 Snobbish sorts

46 Like many Pacific Rim lands

47 Like fertile soil

48 “Game of Thrones” has won 38 to date

49 Pinkett Smith of “Ali”

50 Mineral in blood

51 Go soft, in a way

52 Hotels.com quote

53 Breaker of writer’s block

57 Past the “sell-by” date, perhaps

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