USA TODAY US Edition

CROSSWORD EMOTIONALL­Y SPEAKING

- EDITED Fred Piscop BY Tracy Gray

ACROSS

1 Barnyard bleaters

6 American Greetings purchase

10 Sunday drive, maybe

14 Shifty sort

15 “In ___ of gifts . . .”

16 “On top of that . . .”

17 Video game with green enemy pigs 19 Mustachioe­d surrealist

20 Brit’s “cuppa”

21 Mafia bigwig

22 Skyscraper count

24 Knee or elbow, anatomical­ly

26 Word before penny or please

27 C-to-C interval

30 iPhone function under “Clock”

32 Gable roof feature

33 Dietary fiber source

34 Poison oak woe

38 Sugar serving

39 Half the chessmen

40 Rom-com filmmaker Ephron 41 Comply with, as a law

42 Woodwind with a conical bore

43 “Bad apple” or “big cheese”

44 Weapon with electrodes

46 Swimmer Michael with 23 Olympic golds

47 Cicada sounds

50 Roger Bannister, notably

52 Wild and crazy guy

54 Peeples or Vardalos

55 Letter after sigma

58 Luxury hotel chain

59 Hard-to-accept situation

62 Yuletide tune

63 Place to hibernate

64 Klondike’s territor y

65 Screws up

66 Texter’s “seize the day”

67 Loos who adapted “Gigi”

DOWN

1 Aspiring J.D.’s exam

2 Hathaway of “Ocean’s 8” 3 Prefix with byte or bucks

4 It ’s bellied up to

5 Deplane dramatical­ly 6 Peach variety 7 Mattress filler 8 Pete Rose’s longtime team 9 Whisk brooms’ companions 10 War memorial, e.g. 11 Braid of hair 12 One of the Bahamas’ many 13 Like a jackhammer 18 Treat for a dog

23 Bruins great Bobby

24 Roy Rogers/Dale Evans single

25 Song you can’t get out of your head

27 Vigeland Sculpture Park cit y

28 Sandwich with toothpicks

29 Hefty volume

31 HOV ___

33 Homer king before Hank

35 Slave away

36 Trim, as a photo

37 Smokehouse meats

39 “God willing!”

43 Informal “understood”

45 2 BR/1 BA listing, perhaps

46 Ballet bend

47 T. rex in “Jurassic Park,” e.g.

48 Jokes and

61-Downs 49 Visceral, as feelings

51 Emcee’s lead-in

53 “See ya!”

55 ___ torch (party light)

56 To a great degree

57 Forearm bone

60 Up to, on a store sign

61 Bit of Ogden Nash wordplay

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