USA TODAY US Edition

CROSSWORD

- EDITED Fred Piscop BY Gail Grabowski

ACROSS

1 Tea with Indian spices

5 Chess pieces usually moved first 10 Auto parts giant 14 Traffic jam sound 15 Lindsay of “Mean Girls”

16 Sharif of “Che!” 17 S&L offerings 18 Ready to blow one’s stack

19 Lawn party rental

20 West Wing conference

23 Blood bank fluids

24 Patio bug-killer sound

25 Buffet stack

28 Org. created by the 1933 Banking Act

30 Served, as time

33 Held sway over

34 Main railway route

36 Farm workers in pairs

37 Auctioneer’s word

38 Join the game, in a way

39 Reptile with a hinged shell 41 Curled-upper-lip look

42 Stat for Shohei Ohtani

43 Fiddler’s tune

44 Monkey’s place, in a game

45 Jason Bourne’s org.

46 Many Little League coaches

47 Home plate umpire’s wear

54 Coloratura’s delivery

55 Day trip, say

56 Far from stuff y

57 Harleys, to bikers

58 Give one’s two cents

59 Temporary insanity, e.g.

60 Icy Hot target

61 Ho-hum

62 Harrow rival

DOWN

1 In vogue

2 Dance done with hands held

3 Many a Syrian

4 Not taking no for an answer 5 Tooth-extraction tool

6 Place for a stent, perhaps 7 Collision sound 8 “Great” kid-lit detective 9 Reacting to pollen, say 10 Consequenc­e of poor service 11 Call from the flock 12 Feeling of hunger 13 Tate Modern display

21 Can’t live without

22 Sail a zigzag course

25 Mueller’s Russiagate investigat­ion, e.g.

26 Las Vegas hotel named for an Egyptian cit y

27 Amazon Echo’s assistant

28 Feature absent from generic products

29 Sahara formation

30 Supped in style

31 Debriefing info

32 Name on fairway mowers

34 Mallgoer’s convenienc­e

35 Plant trees and shrubs, say

37 “Nicely done!”

40 “Topaz” novelist Leon 41 Fries, at McDonald’s

44 Hot Wheels maker

45 Put an end to

46 Summer who sang “On the Radio”

47 Holey, lightweigh­t shoe

48 Above the strike zone

49 Bear with a too-hard chair

50 Totally botch

51 Jousters’ contest

52 Snack with a Thin Bites variety

53 Romney’s 2012 running mate

54 “I thought so!”

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