CROSSWORD
DRINKING GAME
ACROSS
1 Select invitees
6 Bert who played a “fraidy-cat”
10 Having the know-how
14 Remove, Stalin-style
15 Jon Arbuckle’s drooling dog
16 Colorful General Mills cereal
17 Storefront panel
19 Grow less visible, as the moon
20 Vampire’s avoidance
21 Barber’s quickie
22 Scoreboard tally
24 Tiny bit
25 Wiener schnitzel meat
26 1791 Mozart opera
31 Create pigtails
33 Paddock fare
34 Vegan burger base, perhaps
35 Posh London hotel
36 Does a teamster’s work
38 NASCAR’s Earnhardt Sr. or Jr.
39 Air Force hotshot
40 Sound from Big Ben
41 Executes perfectly
42 Partner of Alice B. Toklas
46 No challenge at all
47 Portraitists’ paints
48 Regard as identical
51 Bugs big-time
52 Problem-solver’s shout
55 Bread for sliders
56 Feature of a toy dart
59 Black widow attack
60 Words spoken with a nod
61 “Musta been someone else”
62 Help a bench-presser
63 Really bugged, with “off ”
64 Born in Bern, say
DOWN
1 Google Glass downloads
2 Humdinger
3 Revolutionary Guard nation
4 NYPD rank
5 Grew choppers
6 1955 Nabokov novel
7 An original sinner
8 Word before Majesty or nibs
9 They’re paid at memorials
10 As one wishes
11 Product of
32-Down milling
12 Fuzz in a dryer trap
13 Alimony payers
18 Far from optimistic
23 Graceless sorts
24 Computer expert, slangily
25 Perfumery container
26 Source of hash browns, informally
27 Overcharge during a shortage, say
28 Retired sprinter Bolt
29 Bridge charge
30 Coals, on snowmen
31 Talk big
32 Chinese takeout freebie
36 Help a vacationing friend, perhaps
37 Samberg of “Brooklyn Nine-Nine”
38 Head table’s area
40 Unruly tyke
41 “Half ” or “full” wrestling holds
43 Mad Hatter’s service
44 Did a washday chore
45 Word before bar or torch
48 Gradually lessens
49 Line from Groucho
50 Bible preposition
51 Slushy drink at Burger King
52 Play starter
53 Plays a kazoo
54 Many tailless primates
57 Derive benefit from
58 “Right this minute!”