USA TODAY US Edition

CROSSWORD

YOU SAID IT!

- EDITED Fred Piscop BY Patrick Jordan

ACROSS

1 Our portliest president 5 Reason to see the dentist 9 Language on all current U.S. coins 14 City near Mauna Kea

15 Arctic conveyance 16 Appetite-whetting stimulus 17 Serpent’s place, in Genesis

18 Like choral works 19 “Get outta my sight!”

20 Harshest punishment allowable

23 Admit for free

24 No spring chicken

25 Word after traffic or printer

28 Palmist’s prediction

31 Snow cone makeup

34 Rapidly, poetically

36 Cinnabar, to mercury

37 Desert Storm ally

38 Profit-and-loss report

42 Malleable metal

43 Go toe-to-toe

44 Banded mineral

45 Got a glimpse of

46 Impersonat­e effectivel­y

49 Fish-fowl connector

50 Give a donation to

51 Prom night woe

53 Poker face

61 Two octaves, for some vocalists

62 Crimson Tide, informally

63 Tuning fork’s output

64 Water-loving mammal

65 Bake-off fixture

66 Fleeced females

67 Blender sounds

68 Millennial­s’ parents, casually

69 Talk fresh to

DOWN

1 The opposition

2 Opera with the King of Egypt 3 Strike a bodybuilde­r’s pose

4 Invigorati­ng drink

5 Adopt, as an alias

6 Clusters of bushes

7 Barnyard layers

8 Either of two on some knives 9 “Bringing up the rear . . .” 10 Traveled like a slow-pitch softball 11 In need of patching 12 Apple on many a desk

13 Every hurricane gets one 21 Dial-up access need, once

22 Largish combo

25 Sends to the pokey

26 Sleep clinic topic

27 Colorful parrot

29 “I fully agree,” slangily

30 Lyrical Gershwin

31 “To clarif y . . .”

32 Part of an epic poem

33 Doorman’s invitation

35 Fish-and-chips fish

37 Texter’s “Holy cow!”

39 Weasel out of

40 Sasha, to Malia, informally 41 Produces, as dividends

46 Tight-fisted types

47 Tender of

66-Across or

7-Down

48 “___ 8” (2018 heist comedy)

50 The Hulk’s emotion

52 Rob of “90210”

53 It’s mopped on muggy days

54 Builder’s backing strip

55 Motion opposer

56 Gaming console since 2001

57 Apply blacktop to

58 Only state name beginning with two vowels

59 Bills in liar’s poker

60 Legendary Loch

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