USA TODAY US Edition

CROSSWORD

- EDITED Fred Piscop BY Gail Grabowski

GRID WORK ACROSS

1 Makes a quick getaway 6 Whence the Magi 10 Furtive “Hey!” 14 Fond farewell 15 Heat-rub target 16 “This can’t be!” 17 Result of a walkoff homer 19 March 17 slogan word

20 Big name in jeans

21 Scout’s discovery

22 Bay of Fundy phenomenon

23 A handful of

24 Where to get a club sandwich

25 Item in a load-bearing wall 31 Flooring calculatio­ns

32 Baldwin of “It ’s Complicate­d”

33 Watering hole, so to speak

36 Install, as a new senator

37 “I’ll second that!”

39 Skirt that doesn’t show a lot

40 Trike rider

41 TT and Q5 automaker

42 Walked nervously

43 Hook, line and sinker

47 Fork-tailed seabirds

49 Fraternity initiation, e.g.

50 $5 bills, slangily

51 Pull into town

54 High on the hwy.

57 Zoo barrier

58 All-year ticket

60 Sommer of “A Shot in the Dark” 61 “Golf-ball-sized” precipitat­ion

62 Far from relaxed

63 Stereotypi­cal gangster’s voice

64 Guitar great Duane 65 Catch by tricker y

DOWN

1 Have a good cry

2 Oft-kicked comics canine

3 Conga formation

4 Part of a royal flush

5 Hopeful spousesto-be 6 Raptorial hatchling 7 Square-mile fraction

8 Give the cold shoulder to 9 Lawn party rental 10 Word before justice or license 11 Recoil in fear 12 Like a catty remark 13 Copy center supply 18 Newborn’s acquisitio­n

23 “Get outta here!”

24 Dwarf with specs

25 Curtain call group

26 Cookie that may be pulled apart

27 Compulsive organizers

28 Have a pie delivered, say

29 Crunchy sandwich, for short

30 “War and Peace” author Tolstoy

34 Winter Olympics leap

35 Enjoy a Harley

37 “I should know that!”

38 Ugandan despot Amin

39 Spice derived from nutmeg 41 Stubborn equine

42 Edison’s 1,000+

44 Marching together

45 Like a horror movie scene

46 DVR pioneer

47 Circus whip-cracker

48 Virus named for an African river

51 Big Apple tennis stadium

52 Audition for a part

53 Midnight fridge visit

54 Delany of “Desperate Housewives” 55 World power until

1991, briefly

56 “That makes sense”

59 Farm enclosure

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© Andrews McMeel 9/18

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