USA TODAY US Edition

CROSSWORD

- EDITED Fred Piscop BY Patrick Jordan

ACROSS 1 Rotisserie rods

6 Sound of

exhaustion

10 H.H. Munro’s pen

name

14 Precious metal, e.g.

15 The Simpson kids, e.g. 16 BuzzFeed or Sporcle offering 17 Period of wet weather

19 Golden rule word

20 “Fake news!”

21 Charged, as an

account

23 Midler of “Gypsy”

25 Corn container

26 Burn with steam

29 “La La Land”

Oscar winner

34 Lacking zest

35 Leave in a lot

36 Head-butting

beast

37 Cleopatra’s

undoing

38 Adds as a

supplement

41 Mealtime wear

42 Shoe insert

material

43 Burn grill marks

into

44 Home to a tiny

queen

45 Goth’s cosmetic

48 Supply a spread

for

49 Referendum

vote

50 Fastball-clocking

device

52 Affected by glare,

perhaps

56 Most sunburned

60 Bridge seat

61 Rare diamond

event

63 Caroline who hosted “The Biggest Loser”

64 Speedboat’s trail 65 Netherland­s

bloom

66 Dino with tiny

forelimbs

67 Was on the hook for

68 Like a beaten-todeath joke

DOWN

1 “Gandhi” wardrobe piece 2 Exam for future collegians 3 Sun-crowned goddess

4 Resistant to attack

5 Created a coif

6 City near Tampa,

informally

7 Seething emotion

8 Coat gaudily

9 Reserved advantage 10 Look like Clint Eastwood? 11 Title heard at family reunions 12 Breeze-borne toy 13 Sport shirt seller 18 Rest in a rocker 22 Works on a beach

tan

24 Japanese

monarch

26 Holdup target in a

Western

27 Mudville batter of

poetry

28 Far more than

meager

30 Engage a crew for

31 Satellite’s circle

32 Overly

unquestion­ing

33 Bonfire

remnant

38 Suffered a flu

symptom

39 Second step

40 Bandage

cushion

44 Barely able

46 Grammatica­l

structure

47 Bent a bit

48 Citadel

inductees

51 Pa. neighbor

52 With 53-Down,

Oz lion portrayer 53 See 52-Down 54 “That clears up my confusion” 55 Shootout order 57 Scatting legend Fitzgerald 58 Catamaran sheet 59 A or O, at a blood bank 62 Mike’s candy partner

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