USA TODAY US Edition

CROSSWORD

- EDITED Fred Piscop BY Patrick Jordan

CANDY LAND

ACROSS

1 Neighbor of Niger

5 Flap on a blazer 10 Flock tender in Genesis 14 Citrusy-sounding Connecticu­t town

15 Texas shrine with barracks 16 Wine tour center 17 Wrist gadget with a workout app 19 Increased, as in popularity

20 “Don’t sweat it!”

21 2000 Subway Series stadium

22 Sign of impending trouble

23 Locales for rings and rinks

25 Nissan model since 1982

27 Expel, as fumes

29 Keen-eyed bird

32 Not for the prudish

35 Muss, as one’s coif

39 Bill-blocking vote

40 “So, it ’s YOU!”

41 Capturer of stadium smoochers

42 Mother of

10-Across

43 Nikkei 225 currency

44 Pants measure

45 Student advocacy orgs.

46 Oily fish

48 Part of a literar y anthology

50 Mr. Milquetoas­t

54 Many a Beethoven work

58 Ghastly looking

60 Entreprene­ur’s spark

62 Vision-related

63 Whitecap’s top

64 Sauce thickener

66 Falco with four Emmys

67 Die down

68 Find appealing

69 Show a red flag to

70 Gibberish doesn’t make it 71 Cheeky talk

DOWN

1 Barton of nursing

2 Wired on caffeine, say

3 Far from scanty

4 Kim of “NYPD Blue”

5 Jurist’s study

6 Sighed lament

7 Nature center routes

8 Improv club host

9 Lindsay of “Mean Girls” 10 Mohair-yielding goat 11 Attractor of iron filings

12 Electrifie­d blade

13 Sprinkler’s place

18 Grade determiner, often

24 Sub with a band

26 Come down hard

28 Disc golf turn

30 Red-hot outflow

31 Bumps on potatoes

32 Sunbathers catch them

33 “May I interrupt?” sound

34 Piece of woven furniture

36 Make a patsy of

37 Improvise like Ella

38 Tibetan teachers

41 DIYer’s buys

45 Snail-mail correspond­ents

47 Those not of the cloth

49 Robber’s haul

51 Typesetter­s’ units

52 Photoshop creator

53 Aired again

55 Skylit areas

56 “60 Minutes” clock sounds

57 Flu sufferer’s symptoms

58 Not too many

59 Nehi offering

61 Offspring of tiny queens

65 Go on dates with

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