USA TODAY US Edition

CROSSWORD

- EDITED Fred Piscop BY Patrick Jordan

CHEESY CHOICES

ACROSS

1 Leave the sack

6 Sought permission

11 1960s-70s arena, briefly

14 Apart from others 15 Harder to outfox 16 “Death Wish” director Roth 17 Triangular military formation 19 Raspy-voiced Stewart

20 Gunslinger’s skill

21 Removes from

harm’s way

23 First biblical birth

24 Most prone to

prying

26 Base farthest from

home

29 React to novocaine

30 Words of

concession

31 Sack out

32 It may be laid

down

35 Roll of fabric

36 Does a checkout

task

37 Like Rodeo Drive

shops

38 Nestle ___-Caps

39 Glass fragment

40 2014 Winter

Olympics site

41 Become a

pensioner

43 Peter who’s secretly

Spider-Man

44 Question of

quantity

46 Horse show

concern

47 View with hatred

48 Risque burlesque

act

52 “Didn’t know that!”

53 Fundraisin­g bash

56 Don’t waste

57 “Planet of the

Apes” captive

58 Howe who sued

Isaac Singer 59 Jellied or smoked

fish

60 “Easter, 1916” poet W.B.

61 An aunt of Bart Simpson

DOWN

1 Hook with a handle

2 Singer with Duke

and Count

3 Playroom items

4 Price per pound, e.g. 5 Necklace dangler 6 Dam across the Nile

7 Whole bunch 8 Booster seat user 9 Neurologis­t’s test, briefly

10 Don a tuxedo, say 11 Pain relief injection 12 Bitter ___ (purgative) 13 Central spot 18 Graph paper pattern

22 Command after

“Ready!” 46 Becomes

45-Down, perhaps

48 Pledged group, for

short

49 Carpenter’s gun

projectile

50 Bisque morsel

51 Blond queen in

“Frozen”

54 28-Down selection

55 Health org. since

1847

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© Andrews McMeel 5/20

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