USA TODAY US Edition

CROSSWORD

- EDITED Fred Piscop BY Patrick Jordan

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!”

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