USA TODAY CROSSWORD
PSPSPSPS ACROSS
1 Aries animals
5 Rustic hotels
9 Rory Gilmore’s
alma mater
13 Kitsune ___ (folktale-inspired noodle soup)
14 “I want scritches!” 15 Some collared
shirts
16 “Peter Pan” dog
17 Achy
18 Word after “CIA”
or “travel”
19 Imaginary bubble used to determine physical boundaries
22 “Archer” actress
Aisha
23 Big hop
24 ___ League
27 Yoga poses
31 Spoken-word
competition
36 “Every person you can know and every place that you can go,” per “Schoolhouse Rock!”
37 2023 Pulitzer-Prize
winning opera
38 Egyptian boy
king
39 “I did it!”
40 La ___ Madrigal
(“Encanto” home) 41 Vessel with a cannon on a Disneyland ride 44 Not late
46 Beyonce album released when she turned 25
47 Smelling organ
49 Preen
53 Jewish ritual during which kids search for the afikomen
57 Baby food, often 58 “ifuaskme...” © Andrews McMeel
59 “The Little
Mermaid” prince 61 Apartments
62 “In ___ of gifts . . .” 63 “Back in Black”
band
64 School support
orgs.
65 “ASAP!”
66 “___ All That”
DOWN
1 Seek office
2 Adjust to change 3 What time is, in
an idiom
4 Dog’s warning
growl
5 “My apologies”
6 Super-brightly
colored
7 Filmmaker
Ephron
8 Expand
9 Athleisure made
for posing
10 Actor Mapa
11 One and only 12 Numerical guess
(Abbr.)
15 Parental pair
20 Cook a crust onto 21 Jorts line 25 Italian wine
region 26 Promo paragraph on a book jacket
28 Joel Kim Booster’s
“Fire Island” role 29 Car company with
a four-ring logo 30 Show appreciation at a 31-Across
31 Spanish for “bit” 32 Yemen’s neighbor 33 Sunrise direction 34 Good gifts for railway enthusiasts 35 Just ___ (the
littlest bit) 41 Currency of
Colombia
42 Quits, in a way
2/17 43 Literary heroine
Jane
45 Singer-songwriter
Sumney
48 Terrible things
50 “Any ___?” (“What
should we do?”)
51 Concert tees, e.g. 52 “Happy ___!”
(June greeting)
53 Football kick
54 Opera house solo 55 Radiate
56 Actress Perlman who played Ruth in “Barbie”
57 Baby otter
60 Includes on an