USA TODAY US Edition

CROSSWORD

- EDITED Fred Piscop BY Gail Grabowski

BUILDING PROJECTS

ACROSS

1 A bit titillatin­g

5 Lusterless finish

10 Symbol on a staff

14 Result of overexerti­on, perhaps

15 Cornhusker State city

16 Sharpen, as skills

17 Like a tuned string

18 Pedometer button

19 Import with a four-ring logo

20 Round Table title

21 Wearing away, on a waterway

23 Field trip group, often

25 Firmly fixed, as a gaze

26 Parthenon locale

28 Beating around the bush

30 In one’s birthday suit

31 RPM indicators

32 Played for a sap

35 Boers’ emigration

36 Barn hatchling

37 PlayStatio­n 4 maker

38 Squalid digs

39 Intel seekers

40 Instrument in much Jethro Tull music

41 Shelled out

42 Kidded around with

43 Mason’s binder

46 Make a basket, perhaps

47 Woodworkin­g instructor, e.g.

50 “Moondance” singer Morrison

53 Driver’s license datum

54 Sawyer’s creator

55 “Encore!”

56 German sausage, for short

57 Road trip expenses

58 All-hrs. banking devices

59 Prop for Mr. Monopoly

60 Place to convert splits

61 Grade factor, often

DOWN

1 “Aw, nuts!”

2 Antioxidan­t-rich berry

3 Bottle opener, slangily

4 “The best is ___ to come”

5 Marshy tract

6 Calls from the flock

7 To-do list item

8 You, quaintly

9 Follow a healthy diet

10 Pure as the driven snow

11 A nephew of Donald Duck

12 Finish with

13 Fencer’s maneuver

21 McNamara’s ensemble

22 Cross to bear

24 Vichyssois­e ingredient

26 Workers with antennae

27 Pucker-inducing

28 Profession­al parker

29 Air Force heroes

31 Mattress size

32 Action on a congressio­nal bill

33 Join the game, in a way

34 Darkened, perhaps

36 “H.M.S. Pinafore,” e.g.

37 Many an Eastern European

39 Petty quarrel

40 Chicken’s emotion

41 Tampa neighbor, familiarly

42 Itsy-bitsy

43 Rachel Maddow’s network

44 Family name in Civil War fiction

45 Like Super

Bowl numerals (except 50)

46 ___ -U-WAIT (store sign phrase)

48 USAF offender

49 Decision reviewed in an instant replay

51 Places for tattoo sleeves

52 Home to a

36-Across 55 Pilates class accessory

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© Andrews McMeel 9/4

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