USA TODAY CROSSWORD

BREAK THE SILENCE ACROSS

1 Pig’s food

5 Small tastes of lassi 9 Plumbing or

carpentry

14 Org. that grades beef as Prime, Choice or Select

15 Pigeon calls

16 Consider important 17 Vertical passage

for letters

19 Store’s

merchandise

20 Like some

wineglasses

21 Body part that

might be rosy

22 ___ yum gai (Thai

soup)

23 Stepped heavily

24 Angela Lansbury

mystery series

31 Swiss cheese

features

32 Tots’ boo-boos

33 Touring band’s

vehicle

34 Initial poker

payment

35 Squirrel away

36 Suffix for “snooze”

or “Oktober”

37 Month after Feb.

38 ___ down (packs

firmly)

39 Puts into piles

40 Tofu or tempeh

43 ___ kahiko (traditional Hawaiian dance) 44 Sticky paving stuff 45 Rotates

47 Headpiece that might incorporate bananas

52 First half of an LP

53 Major highway

54 Type of golf

tourney

55 “Okay, I’ll ___” (“Tell

me more”)

56 Make preparations 57 High-end Italian

fashion brand

58 “Unfortunately . . .” Answers:

59 Bubble bath foam

DOWN

1 “That about ___ it

up”

2 Aspiring attorney’s

test (Abbr.)

3 Drooling dog in

“Garfield”

4 Tropical source of

shade

5 Devious plan

6 Promises of

payment

7 Gumbo vessels

8 Direction opposite

NNW

9 “The Bear” and

“Abbott Elementary” 10 Inappropriate for young audiences, per the MPA

11 Skin-soothing gel

12 ___, ___, goose

(game)

13 Startled squeal

18 Lumps of dirt

21 “Rocky” spinoff starring Michael B. Jordan 23 ___ for knowledge 24 “Make Me Feel”

singer Janelle

25 The “U” in UV

26 Robotic vacuum

brand 27 Exchanges 28 Not concealed 29 ___ of Chicago (annual food celebration)

30 Sinus specialists,

for short 31 Soccer legend

Mia 35 Schleps 36 “Baby I Need Your Loving” quartet 38 Huge wave 39 Escalator part 41 Series of comments on social media

42 Apple Music’s

predecessor 45 Become

tuckered out 46 Haikara ___

(noodle dish)

3/13

47 Get an F

48 EGOT winner

Moreno

49 “Ramy” streaming

service

50 Not very much

51 Perfect scores,

often

52 Sunblock stat

53 Degree for some

CEOs