USA TODAY CROSSWORD
AT FIRST I WAS AFRAID ACROSS
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Performs like Abigail Asante ___ soup (dish that often contains wakame) 9 Suggestions
13 Make happy
15 Convenience store chain open 24/7 Sabrina Ionescu’s org. Coachella month Live-action ___-playing Website with hand-knit socks 20 Breaded poultry
strip
23 Assignment
24 Valentine’s Day
offering
25 Deciliters and
degrees
28 Haul
30 TV show installments, for short
32 “Good gracious!” 33 “His Three Daughters” actress Elizabeth 36 Remain TBD
38 Green burrito
filling, for short
39 Place with
fossilized trees
42 Matcha and
boba, etc.
43 Pen liquids
44 Trudges through
water
45 Very cold
46 “My pronouns ___
...”
47 Big ___ (famous
clock tower)
48 Word before
“pepper” or “dog” 50 Winter garment 53 Stuff studied in
stats
57 The spinal cord is
part of it
60 Grand tale Answers:
5
16
17 18
19 62 Marching insects 63 Musician/actress
Haim
64 Refuse to
associate with
65 ___ out (allocate) 66 Components
67 Quick sleeps
68 H.S. junior’s exam 69 ___ the mark
DOWN
1 Have an emotional response Letter before beta Tuileries Garden city
4 People who are very particular Ghost singer Nixon
6 “Heading out
now!”
7 Features of
damaged hair
8 Foreboding sign
9 Ten-year-old, e.g. 10 Piqued the
interest of 2 3
5 11 “Masterpiece”
channel
12 “What more can I
___?”
14 Deer with two
ivory teeth
21 ___ yolk
22 Toula’s dad in “My Big Fat Greek Wedding”
26 Playfully taunt
27 Religious factions 29 College, in the
U.K.
31 File type for sheet
music
33 Eye-related
34 Bloodsucking
animal
35 Not going to bed 36 Woody items on
Yuletide wreaths 37 “A critter in the
house!”
38 Serena Williams’
achievement 40 “Balsam” tree 41 Be in debt 46 ___ sign (Libra,
e.g.)
SATURDAY’S ANSWERS 47 “Go Go” K-pop
band
49 Tilts
51 “___ This World” (Britney Spears song)
52 Positive trait
54 Company that made the CX40 joystick
55 Scouts’ shelters 56 Accrue over time 58 Repeating bit of
music
59 Ramble on and
on
60 W-9 form ID
61 “I’ve had an
epiphany!”