USA TODAY US Edition

CROSSWORD

SECURITY FORCE

- EDITED Fred Piscop BY Patrick Jordan

ACROSS

1 Hoopster LeBron

6 Mailing to Santa 10 Hair stiffeners

14 Vacation spot near Venezuela 15 A big fan of 16 Waze verb 17 Party pooper 19 Probe-launching org.

20 Remained unused 21 School recital

segment

22 Take a whack at 24 Bee’s pollen

pouch

25 Sport with clay

projectile­s

26 Chicken breast,

e.g.

30 Monarchs’ periods 34 Wheel-to-wheel

bar

35 Fawn’s father

37 Recyclable metal 38 Audio-squelching

button

39 Like many electric guitar bodies 41 Sonata finale, often

42 Arsonist’s creation 44 “A ___ pittance!” 45 “Cupcake Wars”

appliance

46 View on Hulu, say 48 Vilifies verbally

50 Crooked

politician’s crime 52 Dense bread

53 On-the-spot, as a

purchase

56 Sniper’s asset

57 Bouncers’

requests, briefly 60 Beverage with a burger 61 Mineable discovery

64 In all of history

65 West Coast wine

valley

66 Split up equally 67 Needing a

recharge 68 Close noisily 69 Prohibitiv­ely

priced

DOWN

1 Crocodiles’

powerful features 2 Tiler’s calculatio­n

3 “Designer dog,” to

some

4 Recede, on the

beach

5 Deep bow of respect

6 It’s picked off suits 7 Tattoo parlor supply

8 Grill master’s entree

9 Walk like a tosspot 10 It’s stored in DNA 11 Crammer’s concern

12 Thpeak like thith 13 “Now!” in the ER

18 RAM part

23 Souvenir garments 24 Buffet table barrier 25 Most hackneyed 26 Petting zoo

youngsters

27 Display jubilation 28 Communion site 29 NRC logo item

31 Orange tree’s

place

32 Ralph who criticized the Corvair

33 Connects the

banks of

36 Bat mitzvah

celebrant

40 Sweetie pie

43 Rank below

marquess

47 Workers with

trowels

49 Maidens of Greek myth 51 Unlike a house cat

53 Like much tea,

in summer

54 “Outta my

way!”

55 Request from

the desperate 56 Sandler of “Hotel Transylvan­ia” movies

57 14-Across, e.g.

58 Deliberate ring

loss

59 Baby’s notable

first

62 Government org.

with a flower logo 63 Muffin morsel

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© Andrews McMeel 3/11

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