USA TODAY US Edition

PUZZLES CROSSWORD

- EDITED Erik Agard BY Brooke Husic

SEEING STARS

ACROSS

1 Prefix for “permanent” 5 Name akin to Paul

10 Keeps bothering 14 Greek god of desire 15 Mocking look 16 Hairstyle for 32-Down 17 Prefix for “nemesis”

18 9-Down or Idaho

19 Primary

20 Some basketball players, positionwi­se

23 Contracept­ion

method

24 “___! . . . I Did It

Again”

25 Brand images

29 Observing

33 One of four for

Biles in 2016

37 More recent

38 Essie competitor

39 Bright astronomic­al events 41 Financial planning option

42 Chan who played Astrid in “Crazy Rich Asians”

45 Crystalliz­ed snack

48 About an hour

after noon

50 Put on TV again

51 Eating plan

53 Even score

55 24/7

62 Major energy

source

63 2016 WNBA MVP

Ogwumike

64 Personalit­y parts

66 Place to live

67 Mammal that might eat 20 pounds of food per day

68 Get money for

69 Astronaut

Jeanette 70 Shania Twain’s “___ Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?” 71 “High School Musical” protagonis­t

DOWN

1 Sargasso or Caribbean 2 Makes a blunder 3 Japanese rice cakes

4 Response to good advice you might not take

5 “Over here!”

6 Against

7 Adzuki, e.g.

8 Release a grasp

9 Home to Mount Hood 10 Respectful greeting 11 Worshipped from ___ 12 Tic-tac-toe drawing 13 Hijos, in English

21 “Failing Up” author Leslie ___ Jr.

22 “Once ___ a Time”

26 ___ Y (millennial­s)

27 Bad smell

28 Relish

30 “Victory is mine!”

31 ___ Nation (nickname for Stanford)

32 Singer Macy

33 Word before “boots” or “music”

34 Competitio­n for Naomi Osaka

35 Green fruit

36 Underwear

material

40 Genre for

Hepcat

43 Center parts

44 Most populous

continent

46 Urban area

47 Most dry

49 “Whoa there!”

52 Ninth’s follower

54 More than ready 55 Feel sore

56 Part of a shoelace

knot

57 Desk light

58 Power to prevent

legislatio­n

59 ___ out a living

(gets by)

60 Uncommon

61 Acronym akin to “carpe diem” 65 Sneaky

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