USA TODAY US Edition

TEAM EFFORT CROSSWORD

- EDITED Fred Piscop BY Patrick Jordan

ACROSS

1 Cat’s sunning spot, perhaps 5 Short squabbles 10 Fishing line mishap 14 “My turn to hit” 15 “Vinyl” release 16 Ankle-length skirt 17 Broken-down horses

18 Regional wildlife

19 State as fact

20 Many an Easter chocolate

21 Root canal implement

23 Double-crossing sorts

25 Tennis judge’s call

26 Pass, as time

27 Snack brand in a foil pan

32 Reach a high point of

34 “My bad!”

35 Wish undone

36 Enterprise fleet unit

37 On a hot streak

38 Look fixedly

39 Itinerar y word

40 Social goofballs

41 Rap sheet detail

42 Personaliz­es, as a pendant

44 Dragon’s hangout

45 Made a mess of, militarily?

46 Clobbering with snowballs, e.g.

49 Predator of penguins

54 Cornstalk growth

55 Volkswagen’s luxury line

56 Acknowledg­ed an ovation

57 Falco of “Law & Order True Crime”

58 Power network

59 Oil in Caesar salad

60 Act the drifter

61 Word after “&,” in business names

62 Nation north of Somalia

63 Got on in life

DOWN

1 Muscle-bone connector

2 Scanner’s creation

3 Airline bag add-on

4 15-Acrosses, for short

5 With caution 6 Architects’ renderings 7 Share a border with

8 Fish in some subs 9 Young ones 10 Know-it-all 11 Blue-skinned “Avatar” race 12 Skater’s leap 13 Many a Little Leaguer, now

21 Borrower’s burden

22 Refuse to obey

24 Not wonderful, but not woeful

27 Varsity players, informally

28 Ruffles the feathers of

29 Great Plains tunneler

30 Greece’s national drink

31 Source of pressure, to many teens

32 Yield to a demand

33 Render unusable

34 “That’s a fact”

37 Don Juan

38 Abrasive particles

40 Flash drive contents 41 Gloomy atmosphere

43 Canoeists shoot them

44 Difficult to move

46 Ruffle the feathers of

47 Apt to believe anything

48 It ’s good, in “Wall Street”

49 Live-streaming delays

50 Coin depicting a harp, perhaps 51 Anthony Hopkins, in “Thor”

52 Name on a banana sticker

53 Travel like a

49-Across 57 Time evoked by a period piece

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